Hours after a major general announced the ouster of the Burundi President, Pierre Nkurunziza’s spokesman insists the executive is still in full control of the
East African Community leaders have slammed what they call a coup in Burundi. The heads of state gathered in Tanzania to discuss the crisis in
Burundi’s president’s rejected calls to delay next month’s election in the Great lakes Country. Pierre Nkurunziza’s determination to seek an unconstitutional third term has triggered
A 20th protester has died in street clashes triggered by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza’s determination to seek an unconstitutional third term in next month’s election.
More than 200 women have defied a ban on demonstrations in Burundi to protest against President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid to win an unconstitutional third term.
Burundi’s opposition leader’s been arrested after attending a meeting of East African Community ministers trying to seek a solution to country’s unrest. Police have told
The African Union warns Burundi it isn’t possible to hold elections under current conditions. The alarm call from Addis Ababa following today’s killing of another demonstrator
The man President Jacob Zuma threatened to denounce as a terrorist is currently making a state visit to South Africa as leader of Burundi. Pierre
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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