BRICS Business Council WORKING GROUPS UPDATE – HIGHLIGHTS 2024
Nkomazi SEZ – Exponential Manufacturing
A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Problem: The global issue of unemployment, poverty and inequality. Solution: The creation of a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) which will host roughly 100 companies, comprising multi-nationals, large […]
CSIR Project:
Bioplastic Technology Problem: The world faces a global plastics pollution crisis, especially given that most petroleum-based plastics do not degrade. It is, therefore, harmful to many living organisms. Approximately eight […]
The Clariter Project
Problem: Plastic waste is a global challenge as millions of tons of post-consumer used plastics are constantly accumulating on a daily basis. Less than a third is currently being recovered […]
A call to action: Become a manufacturing activist
At the recent Kwa Zulu Natal Manufacturing Indaba, Stavros Nicolaou, member of the Brics Institute Advisory Board and SA Brics Business Council, issued a call to action – Become a […]
BRICS launches the Future Skills Challenge to probe future of work
BRICS Skills Challenge Expo important for cooperation: S. African gov’t
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) — The BRICS Future Skills Challenge is important in the bloc’s cooperation in preparing the youths for the future to take part in the countries’ development, […]
Trump land tweet: South Africa’s pushback could prove costly
U.S. President Donald Trump may have hoped he could rattle Pretoria with his baseless accusation – and hint at retribution – that white South African farmers are being murdered en […]
SA drug mule sentenced to death in Vietnam
Hanoi, Vietnam — A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a South African man to death after finding him guilty of trafficking nearly 1.5 kilograms (3.3 pounds) of cocaine. The […]