South African businessman and politician, Marius Fransman: "Let's reimagine South Africa through BRICS agenda"

About this episode

The episode features an interview with Marius Fransman discussing South Africa's role in BRICS and its contributions to sustainable development and multilateralism.

In the 15 years of South Africa's membership in BRICS, the country has become one of the most important members of the grouping and contributes significantly to its work. In 2023, South Africa chaired BRICS, emphasising the importance of "partnership for mutually accelerated growth, sustainable development and inclusive multilateralism". To this day, South Africa continues to actively promote multipolarity and the interests of the African continent. South Africa is assisting its neighbours in infrastructure and technology development, smart cities, and green transition. This year the country is chairing the G20, which contributes to the establishment of a sustainable and equitable dialogue in the group. We talked about this with Marius Fransman, businessman and politician from South Africa, founder of the People’s Movement for Change political party. TV BRICS reporter: Leonid Samuna

People in this episode

Host: Leonid Samuna

Guest: Marius Fransman

Topics covered

• BRICS
• South Africa
• multilateralism
• sustainable development
• infrastructure
• technology development
• green transition

Keywords

• BRICS
• South Africa
• Marius Fransman
• sustainable development
• G20
• infrastructure
• technology
• green transition
• multilateralism
• African continent

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: People’s Movement for Change, BRICS, G20

Places: South Africa, African continent

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