Ahead of the upcoming 18th BRICS summit, you penned an op:ed in which you argue that BRICS is helping shift the global balance of power but beyond summits, declarations and diplomatic rhetoric, what concrete evidence do we have that BRICS is actually weakening the dominance of the traditional Western powers and creating a genuinely new global order?

GUEST: Dr Rajendran Govender is a Social Anthropologist and Researcher; Commissioner in the Cultural, Religious and Linguistic Rights Commission