(From L to R) President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend the 2023 Brics Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on Aug 24, 2023. (Photo by Phill Magakoe / AFP)