The opening of Lesotho’s parliament tomorrow is an important marker in the regional roadmap designed to restore peace after an attempted coup in the mountain
The family of outsted Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana say they don’t know his whereabouts after he was seized by security forces yesterday. Ravalomanana slipped into
South Africa’s Deputy President has completed another round of facilitating Lesotho’s security and constitutional logjam announcing that the mountain kingdom will go to the polls
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa says Lesotho will go to the polls next February in a bid to restore stability and constitutional normalcy to the mountain
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s heading for Lesotho today continuing his regional facilitation efforts in restoring the country to constitutional normalcy . He’s arriving as the
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is back home for the weekend after visiting Lesotho in his capacity as the regional facilitator. Police and military in the
In his new role as regional facilitator in Lesotho, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa heads for the mountain kingdom today. His interaction with members of the
A Lesotho General who went rogue after being sacked by Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s reportedly agreed to stand down for a cash payment and a
The regional police guard protecting Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane is about to be increased. Sources close to last night SADC summit focusing on the
South African police escorted Lesotho’s beleaguered Prime Minister Thomas Thabane home yesterday (Wednesday). An aide says the South Africans are still guarding the premier at
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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