We are now members of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, Brics, and we should be setting up a focus group working with the Brics parliaments and the formation of Brics for the active participation of parliaments, not only of those represented by the individual states, but the South-South region as a whole. Since South Africa joined Bric there have been implications for African parliaments in the area of international relations and co-operation, economic development, and trade and industry.