JOHANNESBURG - Deputy president Paul Mashatile says the 9th Brics Parliamentary Forum, has the potential to bring global change.
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He was addressing the two-day forum, which got underway in Johannesburg on Wednesday morning.
Itâs being attended by Brics member states as well as some members of Parliament.
The Forum comes at the back of the leaders' Summit held last month in Sandton.
Mashatile said, "This forum has a possibility to exact change on a global at an unprecedented scale."
"Brics has focused the imagination of the world beyond the citizens of its member states. This is a good thing. However, we should not be surprised when this success attracts negativity."
"We seek peaceful and just world of equitable resource distribution."