Jean-Jacques Cornish

Cameron ridiculed for omissions from his anti corruption summit

Despite Britain’s Prime Minister labelling his country  fantastically corrupt, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari’s in London for summit meeting called to address graft internationally.

Premier David Cameron ridicule by not inviting Fifa, Panama or British Virgin Island to the gathering.

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Until he raised the diplomatic storm with Nigeria with his unguarded comments to Queen Elizabeth, Prime Minister David Cameron was being called brave for calling an anti-corruption summit so soon after the Panama Papers revealed where the super rich were hiding their money.

Cameron will announced that foreign firms  owning  property in Britain  will have to declare their assets publicly in a bid to stamp out money-laundering.

One in 10 properties in the salubrious London West end are owned by foreigners.

One in three international tax havens is British, putting the UK under pressure to do more to stop dodging costing  governments – many of them in developing countries – $170 billion a year.

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Jean-Jacques Cornish is a journalist and broadcaster who has been involved in the media all his adult life.

Starting as a reporter on his hometown newspaper, he moved briefly to then Rhodesia before returning to South Africa to become a parliamentary correspondent with the South African Press Association. He was sent to London as Sapa’s London editor and also served as special correspondent to the United Nations. He joined the then Argus group in London as political correspondent.

Returning to South Africa after 12 years abroad, he was assistant editor on the Pretoria News for a decade before becoming editor of the Star and SA Times for five years.

Since 1999 he’s been an independent journalist writing and broadcasting – mainly about Africa – for Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape
Talk, Radio France International, PressTV, Radio Live New Zealand, Business Day, Mail & Guardian, the BBC, Agence France Press,
Business in Africa, Leadership, India Today, the South African Institute for International Affairs and the Institute for Security Studies.

He has hosted current affairs talk shows on Talk Radio 702 and 567 Cape Talk. He appears as an African affairs pundit on SABC Africa and CNBC Africa.
He lectured in contemporary studies to journalism students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria.

He speaks on African affairs to corporate and other audiences.
He has been officially invited as a journalist to more than 30 countries. He was the winner of the 2007 SADC award for radio journalism.

He’s been a member of the EISA team observing elections in Somaliland, Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe, Egypt and Tunsiai.

In October 2009 he headed a group of 39 African journalists to the 60th anniversary celebrations of the Peoples’ Republic of China.

In January 2010 he joined a rescue and paramedical team to earthquake struck Haiti.

He is immediate past president of the Alliance Francaise of Pretoria.

Jean-Jacques is a director of Giant Media. The company was given access to Nelson Mandela in his retirement years until 2009.
He is co-producer of the hour-long documentary Mandela at 90 that was broadcast on BBC in January 2009.