Violators of the ban on plastic bags now in force in Kenya could be fined half million rands. Anyone making or importing environmentally damaging plastic
Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has called for work stayaway today to mark what he says was the theft of last week’s presidential poll. The
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s been officially declared the winner of a bitterly disputed election in Kenya. His opponent Raila Oding’s refused to concede defeat, criticizing the
At least five people have died in post-election violence in Kenya. The country’s electoral commission warns that opposition claims of victory in Tuesday’s poll could
The European Union observers team has given the thumbs up to this week’s Kenyan election. They says they’ve found no signs of local or national
One person has died in post-election protests in Kenya. The country’s electoral commission rejects opposition claims that the computerized results system has been hacked. Former
The most important observer missions to Kenya’s elections have expressed confidence in that country’s electoral process, despite opposition claims of massive fraud. As the East
President Uhuru Kenyatta has taken the lead after provisional results were released from yesterday’s election in Kenya. His closest rival Raila Odinga dismisses these as
Polls have opened in Kenya where 20 million voters will decide the outcome of the closest presidential race the East African power has seen. There
Long snaking queues continue to wind around the 40 000 polling stations as Kenyans vote in the closest-run election they’ve experienced. President Uhuru Kenyatta’s called
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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