Cyril Ramaphosa not welcome and Marikana massacre commemoration
Hard left leader Julius Malema says those in power want South Africans to forget the brutality of the Marikana massacre five years ago. He says
Hard left leader Julius Malema says those in power want South Africans to forget the brutality of the Marikana massacre five years ago. He says
The five month strike crippling production in the world’s biggest platinum producer has ended. The miners, who’ve been out since January, could be back at
There been another deadlock in settling the five-month platinum miners’ strike in South Africa. Owners of the world’s biggest producers of the metal crucial for
A deal ending the five-month platinum miners’ strike in South Africa remains up in the air. The leading union says it’s accepted the mining
Platinum miners and pit owners have reached a deal principle ending the five month strike threatening to drive South Africa into recession. With a public
The militant labour union dominating South Africa’s platinum sector is seeking to extend to the gold mines the marathon strike threatening to drive the country
The miners’union AMCU vows to continue its 16-week strike in South Africa’s platinum sector as an undisclosed number of its members went back underground yesterday
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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