{"id":45225,"date":"2026-09-11T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45225"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:07:08","slug":"sa-president-aims-to-boost-international-relations-at-brics-summit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-aims-to-boost-international-relations-at-brics-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President aims to boost international relations at BRICS Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa\u2019s (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa has arrived in New Delhi, India, to attend the 18th Brazil, Russia, India, China, and SA+ (BRICS) Summit, taking place from Saturday to Sunday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The theme of the summit, which is under India\u2019s chairmanship, is \u201cBuilding for Resilience, Innovation, Co-operation and Security.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa will on Friday address the BRICS Business Forum. He will focus on trade, supply chains, agriculture, women-led development, the digital economy and innovation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa will also attend the India-SA Business Leadership Roundtable.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The aim is to boost bilateral trade and investment in areas including pharmaceuticals, infrastructure development, critical minerals and electric vehicle battery production.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC-<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34272,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45225","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Ramaphosa will also attend the India-SA Business Leadership Roundtable.","published_date":"","news_description":"Ramaphosa will also attend the India-SA Business Leadership Roundtable.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45225","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\/45225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45226,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45225\/revisions\/45226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}