by Jean-Jacques Cornish South Africa’s courts have been a constant in the country’s hazardous path through wicked colonization, cruel apartheid and the vagaries of democracy.
by Jean-Jacques Cornish On World Press Freedom day it is apposite that we show concern and solidarity with colleagues under the thumbs and worse of
AFRICAN leaders, headed by President Cyril Ramaphosa, have rallied to support World Health Organisation director general Tedros Ghebreyesus who has been attacked by US President
French Ambassador Aurelien Lechevallier says the tough and necessary decisions President Cyril Ramaphosa made to curb the spread of the COVID 19 pandemic seem to
Ambassador Aurelien Lechevallier says France and South Africa are working closely to get a muscular multilateral action plan to help Africa during an after the
President Cyril Ramaphosa has pledged South Africa’s solidarity with the struggles for self-determination of the Palestinian and Saharawi people. His remarks accepting the chairmanship of
Ethiopia’s Premier Abiy Ahmed will have talks with President Cyril Ramaphosa in Pretoria today about building deeper and broader relations between Ethiopia and South Africa.
Another Africa leader has, like President Cyril Ramaphosa, cut short a visit to Egypt to attend to a domestic crisis. President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger
President Cyril Ramaphosa is among scores of African leaders attended the summit that opened in the Russian resort of Sochi this morning. President VladimirPutin has
by Jean-Jacques Cornish There have been uniformly respectful official tributes from the neighbours of ousted Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe who has died in Singapore aged
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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