Lesotho’s baulked at the size of the proposed regional force to help keep peace in the region. Defence sources in Maseru says its less than
Leaders will hear the report of a fact-finding mission that went to the mountain kingdom following the assassination of its army commander earlier this month.
Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says Lesotho’s under a dark cloud following the of its army chief Khoantle Motosomotso. She was speaking at the opening of
South Africa’s Health Minister has lashed African leaders who go abroad to seek medical treatment. Aaron Motsoaledi was speaking at a World Health Organization conference
The Pan African Parliament is pressing to sending independent election observation teams to African polls. African leaders, put out by critical reports issued the continental
Parties to the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species, gathered in Sandton, have reached a compromise on dealing with ivory stockpiles. Conservation groups
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
President Jacob Zuma says South Africa and Nigeria have a leadership role to play to achieve peace and prosperity in Africa. Addressing a joint session
A meeting of non governmental organisations in Gaborone has heard of severe challenges facing the African Peer Review Mechanism. The 12-year-old process of monitoring democracy
A meeting of non governmental organisations in Gaborone has heard of severe challenges facing the African Peer Review Mechanism. The 12-year-old process of monitoring democracy
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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