Opposition parties have welcomed the resignation by Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba. Having failed to persuade the President that he should keep his job, Gigaba
by Jean-Jacques Cornish There’s a message for flat-broke South African Airways: hang in there! It runs in parallel with Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan’s warning that
Parliament descended into chaos as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answered questions yesterday (Tuesday) In scenes reminiscent of former President Jacob Zuma’s appearances in the
Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan has taken to task employees of the South African national flag carrier for protecting corrupt officials running it. He was
President Cyril Ramaphosa and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed to intensify co-operation during their two-year terms on the United Nations Security Council starting next
President Cyril Ramaphosa congratulated his new Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro on his election victory. He’s also lauded the Brazilian people for conducting a successful election.
President Cyril Ramaphosa kicks off an investment summit in Johannesburg today (Friday) aimed at attracting $100-billion dollars of foreign and domestic investment for South Africa
Auditors checking the books of local government municipalities across South Africa are being attacked. In the latest incident a young woman auditor was shot in
Financial markets are on tenterhooks after South Africa’s Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to relieve him of his duties. Politicians are saying
South Africa’s financial sector’s committed R100-billion euros over the next five years to support black businesses. This announcement from President Cyril Ramaphosa addressing the 400
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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