The BRICS summit meeting on August 22-24 in Johannesburg will be the most demanding international meeting that South Africa has accepted to host.
Besides the five BRICS member states, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, a number of 30 aspirant members plus most, if not all, 55 African states are invited.
The emergence of a new regional bloc could, in terms of the number of states and population, surpass any other international organisation except the UN.
This new BRICS euphoria is driven by the rejection in most parts of the world of perceived Western righteousness. The US, the EU and what is