The BRIC-SA saga continues

The news about SA being invited by the President of China, Hu Jintao to join the BRIC grouping continues to top the headlines. There's more and more voices, especially those outside of SA, coming out against the move by SA joining the BRIC formation. The overwhelming argument seems to be that, economically South Africa just does not measure up to the economies of the BRIC countries. Indeed, these voices point out that there are many other economies which are better qualified than South Africa, to join the BRIC family.

Surely President Jintao must have known before taking a decision to invite South Africa that there would be skeptics ready to question his judgement. Yet, despite this, the President of China went ahead and invited South Africa to join the BRIC family anyway. This serves to prove that President Jintao's invitation must surely carry  an ulterior motive. Whatever China's motives may be,  President  Zuma must accept the BRIC invitation and turn this into an economic opportunity for SA.