Author: BRICS+ Consulting Group

BRICS+ Series: Kazan Is Not a Summit, It Is a Statement

Those who have spent years watching Russia’s foreign policy pivot from the inside understand something that Western commentary consistently misreads: Moscow does not pursue relationships it cannot sustain. The warm optics of the Anwar-Putin bilateral in Kazan this week were real, but what matters far more than the handshake is

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South Africa is taxing its own car industry into decline

The double tax nobody talks about The core problem is this: South Africa has a domestic carbon tax, and the European Union has its own Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). South African manufacturers exporting to Europe now have to contend with both. Former Trade Minister Rob Davies has called this

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South Africa is taxing its own car industry into decline

The double tax nobody talks about The core problem is this: South Africa has a domestic carbon tax, and the European Union has its own Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). South African manufacturers exporting to Europe now have to contend with both. Former Trade Minister Rob Davies has called this

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BRICS+ Series: Water Is the New Oil

The language of Abu Dhabi’s partnership expansion with Chinese institutions, intelligent systems, advanced manufacturing, knowledge transfer, reads on the surface like standard diplomatic communiqué. Strip it back, and what it describes is one of the most consequential technology relationships a water-scarce region has ever needed to build. The Middle East’s

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South Africa’s 60-day reserve plan

Now, Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has made an announcement that the government intends to change this. A draft Strategic Petroleum Stocks Policy, to be submitted to Cabinet, proposes that the South African National Petroleum Company maintain reserves equivalent to 60 days of net imports of crude oil

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