
Lesotho parties close to agreement
Spurred by President Jacob Zuma, who visited their mountain kingdom yesterday, political rivals in Lesotho have promised to resolve the crisis that drove their prime
Spurred by President Jacob Zuma, who visited their mountain kingdom yesterday, political rivals in Lesotho have promised to resolve the crisis that drove their prime
Lesotho’s army commander’s calling for help from neighbouring states to bring to heel a rebel general who masterminded a coup attempt last month. The commander
Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane’s ended a brief exile in South Africa. He returned to Maseru today after fleeing last Saturday when soldiers came looking
Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane scrapped plans to go home yesterday (Tuesday) as gunfire and power cuts ratcheted up tension in the capital Maseru overnight.
Lesotho’s beleaguered prime minister Thomas Thabane was guarded by South African police on his journey home today. Police in the mountain kingdom had said they
Continued unrest in Lesotho seems to have delayed Prime Minister Thomas Thabane planned return today. Sporadic gunfire has been heard in the capital Maseru and
Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane’s going home today – ending a brief exile in South Africa. Regional mediators will reinstall him in power after an
Prime Minister Thomas Thabane’s left Lesotho after what he says is a military coup. He’s crossed into South Africa and says his life is
An official South African response to the military coup in Lesotho is expected shortly. The army in the mountain kingdom it surrounds this morning seized
As current chairman of the regional troika on peace and security, South Africa’s calling a meeting of the SADC organ to discuss the crisis 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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