Zambia’s Prime television station has had its license revoked Opposition Democratic Party leader Harry Kalaba calls this a sad day for democracy in Zambia and
Washington’s recalled its ambassador to Lusaka who was embroiled in a row over gay rights and the misappropriation of aid funds. President Edgar Lungu declared
Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu says he’s asked the United States to withdraw its ambassador to Lusaka who defended a gay couple his high court has
Zambia’s vice president has caused a culinary and cultural storm by urging her compatriots to eat less pap. Southern Africans consumes more than a fifth
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Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu’s warned his country’s judges against overturning the election outcome in four years time. Lungu says he has information the Zambian judiciary
President Jacob Zuma’s in Lusaka on a state visit. His host, President Edgar Lungu paid a similar visit to South Africa ten months ago. President
The Democratic Alliance says today’s release of Zambian opposition leader, Hakainde Hichelima, from prison and the dropping of treason charges against him is first step
Zambia’s opposition leader Hakainda Hichelema’s treason trial starts in Lusaka tomorrow – four months after being jailed for failing to make way for President Edgar
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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