BRICS and resource plunder in Africa

PIC: AP PHOTO
PIC: AP PHOTO

The heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa recently met at Sandton, the Johannesburg’s corruption-ridden financial district, for a two-day annual summit. Pretending to challenge Western imperial hegemony over poor nations of the South, this bloc has itself proved to be no different.

The BRICS group is a self centred club of capitalists whose motive is profits through resource plunder in Africa characterised by massive pollution despite their fake anti-imperialist tune they sing every time they come together to strategise on elite profit making schemes.

If anything, two of the BRICS powers, China and India, are investing billions of dollars in coal-fired thermal-power generation in Africa while winning global applause for increasing their solar and wind power at home.

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