Police are deploying additional personnel along the arterial motorway between the commercial capital Johannesburg and the port city of Durban following a string of attacks
Four rare mountain gorillas have been killed by a lightning strike in Uganda/ This is heavy loss for the species number just over 1 000.
The World Health Organization says Tanzania’s not being transparent about three suspected EBOLA cases within its borders. The UN health are says its requires the
Uganda reports a second incursion of EBOLA from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A nine-year-old girl who crossed the border with her mother seeking treatment
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Of course President Donald Trump would back his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsanaro. They both put the short-term political benefit of climate change
The international outcry over forest fires in Brazil has drawn attention to and even greater number of blazes currently underway in Angola and the Congo.
In those heady, early days of democracy South Africa was often said to be punching above its weight diplomatically. There was not a country
The first confirmed case of EBOLA has spilled over into Uganda from the Democratic Republic of Congo. A five-year-old Congolese boy, who travelled with his
An American animal rights activist and her safari guide are on their way back to Kampala after being free by their abductors. Southern Californian Kimberley
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres says a wind of hope is blowing through the Africa. Speaking on the sidelines of the African Union summit
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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