The international outcry over forest fires in Brazil has drawn attention to and even greater number of blazes currently underway in Angola and the Congo.
A row between old adversaries in Angola is threatening to derail plans to rebury the remains of rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on Saturday. Both the
Police Minister Beki Cele’s asked for detectives to be given time to investigate the origins and veracity of social media threats to foreigners in South
In Angola, the son of former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has been arrested on suspicion of money laundering, embezzlement of public funds and fraud.
Angola and Portugal have turned the page on centuries of colonial bitterness. Luanda’s President Joao Lourenco says their future relationship will be characterised by common
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s in Angola for a SADC summit where stability in Lesotho, the DRC and Madagascar come under the spotlight. Ramaphosa remains the regional
A Catholic priest says human traffickers are kidnapping people and selling their vital organs across Angola’s extended border with the Zambia and the Democratic Republic
The World Bank’s forecasing 3,2% growth for sub-Saharan Africa. That up from the 2,4% growth in 2017. The continents three largest economies – South Africa,
Controllers have lost contact with Angola first commercial satellite less than a day after it was launched. They’re saying it’s too early to say the
South African and Angola president meeting in Pretoria today have saluted Robert Mugabe for what they call his sterling contribution to the liberation struggle in
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.
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