Washington’s rowing back from remarks made by President Barak Obama accusing British premier David Cameron of leaving Libya in a mess. Obama tells Atlantic magazine
Excited Kenyans are sprucing up the capital in preparation for US President Barak Obama’s visit at the end of this month. There are many who
President Jacob Zuma has been called to press Egyptian authorities to release a 64-year-old dual South African Egyptian national they’ve been holding since last December.
by Jean-Jacques Cornish One could be forgiven for rubbing one’s eyes and thinking it was an April fool’s joke. A Nigerian president democratically unseated.
By Jean-Jacques Cornish The Jihadi group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Tunis. It left 23 people – 20 of them tourists
Jihadi group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack in Tunis that killed 23 – including 20 tourists. President Barak Obama’s telephoned his Tunisian
The United States is preparing to withdraw nearly all of its troops fighting the Ebola outbreak that’s killed 9 000 people in West Africa. The White
The death toll from the Ebola virus now exceeds 5000 according to the World Health Organisation. The United Nations Ebola coordinator David Nabarro says slow
The World Health Organisation reports a decline in the number of Ebola infections in Liberia but warns against any suggestion the crisis is over. There
A second nurse who treated the first Ebola victim in the United States has tested positive for the deadly haemorrhagic disease. The search is on
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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