{"id":45012,"date":"2026-09-09T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45012"},"modified":"2026-09-09T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:51:03","slug":"sa-president-to-attend-the-18th-brics-summit-in-india","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-to-attend-the-18th-brics-summit-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President to attend the 18th BRICS Summit in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to attend the 18th Brazil, Russia, India, and China and SA+ (BRICS) Summit in New Delhi, India, from Saturday to Sunday, at the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>The summit, hosted under India\u2019s chairship, will focus on trade and investment, financial cooperation, global governance reform and the interests of the Global South.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Discussions will take place against the backdrop of conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, and growing geopolitical tensions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>SA \u00a0will push for stronger intra-BRICS trade and investment, industrialisation and greater investment in African infrastructure aligned with the African Continental Free Trade Area.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15178,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45012","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Discussions will take place against the backdrop of conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, and growing geopolitical tensions.","published_date":"","news_description":"Discussions will take place against the backdrop of conflicts in the Middle East, Ukraine and Russia, and growing geopolitical tensions.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45013,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45012\/revisions\/45013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}