President Cyril Ramaphosa’s made an official visit to eSwatini. In talks with King Mswati III they discussed ways of clearing up backlog in border boast
The rainbow flag has flown over Southern Africa’s last absolute monarchy as hundreds of people participated in the first gay pride march in Swaziland, now
Swaziland’s government’s ordered schools to teach only Christianity. Other religious groups has slammed this saying it fuels intolerance. Swazi schools opened for their new year
Swaziland’s made an emotional speech to the world’s largest wildlife conservation meeting, now underway in Sandton, to be allowed to sell its stockpiles of rhino
Food security is expected to dominate the summit opening in Swaziland today of the 14-nation Southern Africa Development Community. At least 27 million people –
Southern African leaders gathered for their summit in Mbabane are being told by Human Rights Watch that the human rights situation in their grouping is
Three American zoos have beaten a legal bid to block them moving 18 elephants out of drought-striken Swaziland, Incensed animal rights activists condemn what they
Swazi lawyer Thulani Maseko’s being held in solitary confinement, say Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa and Swaziland. They’re demanding that this punishment end
Swazi’s have had a royal warning that democracy groups are portraying a negative image of the nation abroad, robbing them of good opportunities. King Mswati
Erykah Badu has been slammed for her performance at a birthday celebration for Swaziland’s King Mswati III who has been labeled as a ‘corrupt tyrant’
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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