by Jean-Jacques Cornish President Cyril Ramaphosa had his work cut out when he took on the chairmanship of the African Union this year. He is
Mozambique police and navy has seized more than a tonne of heroin off the coast of Cabo Delgado. It come from Afghanistan and was en
Nigeria is days away from eradicating polio. A massive campaign in the north of the country appears to have beaten Boko Haram’s efforts to stop
Morocco’s illegal occupation of Western Sahara is called Africa’s last colonial vestige. Recent events at the International Court of Justice in the Hague and
Somalia’s expelled top UN envoy Nicholas Haysom for asking about the killing of protestors in the country. South African Haysom was legal advisor to the
The United States has threatened sanctions against the International Criminal Court if it goes ahead with prosecutions against Americans. President Donald Trump’s security advisor John
Israeli pilots have refused to fly asylum seekers deported by the Tel Aviv Government to African countries. Their action follows Germn pilots last year refusing
The African Union top security official warns that fighters from so-called Islamic State pose a threat to stability and security when they come home having
Algeria’s told the African Union summit that more than 5 000 youths from the continent have joined terrorist movements. It’s calling on the continental organization
The United States is being increasingly drawn into a clandestine war in Somalia. It is a battle that will embroil the next occupant of
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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