The National Youth Development Agency will host the 9th BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India China, and South Africa) Youth Summit and the Meeting of Ministers responsible for Youth Affairs, under the theme: “BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism.”

The BRICS Youth Summit is a platform for dialogue for delegates from member states, striving for the promotion of peace, security, development in a multi-polar inter-dependent and increasingly complex, globalizing world. The objectives of the summit are to bring together youth participants, affording them an opportunity to share ideas and work on a concrete Action Plan for co-operation in economic, humanitarian, mass media, and science sphere.

This year, South Africa as the head of BRICS will direct the summit to focus on mainly on discussions that aim to encourage young leaders amongst BRICS nations to actively participate in addressing the most significant global challenges, economic, social issues, and contribute to the developmental agenda. It further focuses to establish constructive engagements on issues relating to youth empowerment, the advancement of youth development and in creating a conducive environment where youth will devise a path to a brighter and better future.

The Youth summit precedes the BRICS Ministers responsible for Youth Affairs meeting, which will be attended by the Youth Ministers; Heads of Executive Authorities for Youth; Senior Government Officials; and youth. The outcomes of the BRICS Youth Summit will be presented to the Ministers’ Meeting for decision making and adoption of the presentations and resolutions made by delegates from the summit.

Members of the media are invited to join as follows:

Date: 18 to 20 July 2023

Venue: eThekwini, KwaZulu-Natal

Time: 09h00

RSVP: 10 July 2023

NB: You are required to bring your ID and / Press Card when collecting accreditation. No new applications will be accepted.

Source: Government of South Africa