Former Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda has been discharged from hospital. The 93-year-old was admitted to the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka the his minders said
Zambia’s first President Kenneth Kaunda is spending his third day in the country’s largest hospital following what doctors are calling minor complaints. Doctors at the
This afternoon statement from Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa says former President Kenneth kaunda is doing very well might be discharged soon. Emmanuel Mwamba
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Zambia’s opposition leader, whose party lost the August’s general election, has been arrested along with his vice president for unlawful assembly and seditious practices. Police
Southern African states – except Botswana – are arguing to have the the UN body regulating the treatment of endangered species give the nod to
African countries wishing to cash in on their ivory stockpiles are expressing resentment at the world’s largest wildlife conference in Sandton against conservation groups determined
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon’s called for a new investigation into the death of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjöld in a mysterious air crash in
Counting is underway in the fifth election Zambia has had this past decade. The results from this closely fought race are expected tomorrow ends intro
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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