President Cyril Ramaphosa’s congratulated his Nigerian counterpart Muhammadu Buhari on winning second term as President. He’s commended the patience of the Nigerian people indexing with
Foreign minister sof eight African countries are attending the first continental conference focusing on play as a basic requirement of modern education. The conference comes
Ending sanctions against Zimbabwe will top the agenda of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to Harare next month. Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu
South Africa will assume the rotating presidency of the African Union next year. Leaders of the 55-nation continental grouping voted to pass this ceremonial role
South Africa and Kenya have joined the regional grouping SADC in congratulating Felix Tshisekedi as President elect in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The African
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s in Addis Ababa for regional and continental meetings putting post-election Congo under the spotlight. They’ll be looking at reconciling the results announced
The South African and Zambian Presidents urged the DRC Electoral Commission speedily to release results of the May 30 presidential poll. Presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Edgar
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman was marginalized in the so-called family photo taken of world leaders gathered at the G20 summit in Buenos
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s under the spotlighting at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires this weekend. As South Africa prepares to take up its rotating seat
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s in Geneva today co-chairing a gathering finalizing a report on the international direction labour is taking. He’s draw heavily on his experience
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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