Visiting minister makes case for South Africa to join 'BRIC'

South Africa is aggressively pushing to join the "BRIC" group of nations, its Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said yesterday in Beijing.

BRIC refers to the fast-growing developing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China.

The visiting minister, who gave a speech entitled "South Africa and South-South Cooperation", was in Beijing yesterday before departing to Shanghai, the last stop of her four-day visit to China.