In mid October, I sat down and explained why I would not be at the Climate Change summit in Glasgow. Bottom line: I did not
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu will brief African ambassadors today on xenophobic attacks on foreign-owned businesses in Durban this past week. She’s
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu expresses South Africa’s deep concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in Myanmar . The statement today
Former President Jacob Zuma has filed a court application to have quashed 16 charges of fraud, racketeering and money laundering he’s facing. The alleged crimes
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
A fourth person has died in three days of looting foreign-owned shops around Johannesburg. The shop owners say the attacks started after a newspaper reports
Two people have been killed in Soweto as residents attacked and looted foreign-owned businesses. The giant township neighboring Johannesburg has been at the centre of
Two worshippers and their knife-wielding attacker have been killed in a Mosque in South Africa Western Province early yesterday (Thursday). Several other people sustained stab
Some years ago I had the pleasure of driving a minister of the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic and her ambassador from Durban to Johannesburg.
The climate change summit underway in Morocco won’t have the pizazz of gatherings in Durban and Paris that produced the international agreement limiting global warming
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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