South Africa has proposed involving Russia, India and China in the large-scale renewal of Africa’s infrastructure. This was stated by Elias Monage, President of the Black Business Council and Chairman of the South African side of the Russia-South Africa Business Council, in the TV BRICS programme “BRICS Dialogue”. If we are then to do a huge project, for example, on rail infrastructure, we can then bring the rest of the continent to participate in the rail development and infrastructure for the continent together with the partners within the BRICS countries. Whether we then bring, for example, Russia rail, we then bring India, we then bring China Chairman of the South African side of the Russia-South Africa Business Council He noted that South Africa’s main priorities are logistics and the creation of a transport hub, which would allow goods to move freely between countries across the continent. According to him, South Africa’s geographical position in the south, combined with its developed infrastructure, enables it to facilitate the movement of goods to other parts of Africa. Monage also identified the main challenges facing BRICS countries. These include a lack of direct air connections within the block, such as flights between South Africa and Russia, the absence of a unified platform for standardisation and regulatory frameworks, the lack of a common currency, as well as t...
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