International relations
[Source: Daily Maverick by Peter Fabricius.]
President Cyril Ramaphosa urged the establishment of a BRICS Vaccine Research Centre as a concrete takeaway at last week’s summit in Brasilia. Read more
[Source: Reuters by Wendell Roelf & Vladimir Soldatkin.]
South Africa’s national oil company PetroSA and Russia’s state geological company Rosgeologia are in talks to finalize a $359 million farmout deal to give Russia its first foothold in a prospective oil and gas field offshore South Africa, three sources said. Read more
[Source: Bloomberg by Nkululeko Ncana.]
South African lawmakers will debate the government’s decision to withdraw from the International Criminal Court after it was criticized by the Hague-based tribunal for failing to arrest Sudanese President Umar al-Bashir at an African Union summit in Johannesburg in 2015. Read more