From The Barrel
The BRICS summit of 2023 is slated to convene in August in Durban. It gives South Africa another stab at making history. For indeed, against the backdrop of the current global political context and its myriad subtexts taken jointly and severally, this particular summit will be a paradigm-changing milestone.
South Africa has had unique opportunities to host momentous events which eventually became important to the collective memory of the global commons. What she does with this fortuitous privilege, considering the ruling party’s record of mixed outcomes every so often, is anybody’s guess.
It is no exaggeration that for whatever reasons which have been fated by the vicissitudes of chance or the odd temperament of war permutations,
