The United Nations General Assembly has condemned human rights abuses against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar. The resolutions comes after the Gambia brought a case
The Herero tribe will appeal a New York court throwing out their compensation claim for genocide suffered during Germany’s colonial occupation of Namibia. Tens of
Burundi’s ordered the United Nations Human Rights Commission to close its office in Bujumbura. It follows the world organization’s human rights chief Zeid Raad al
Germany has returned to Namibian authorities the skulls of Herero and Nama people killed in a genocide more than a century ago. Today’s handover at
The International Criminal Court’s reported Jordan to the United Nations Security Council for not arresting Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir when he visited the Kingdom.
The International Criminal Court says it will hold a public hearing next April to probe whether South Africa failed in its duty by refusing to
Human rights groups are calling on Africa, Europe and the United Nations to send a military force to prevent a civil war and possible genocide
Two Zambians have been burned to death in xenophobic violence in the capital. President Edgar Lungu’s ordered the military to restore order in Lusaka where
Stormy relations between Great Lakes neighbors have been dragged to new lows by Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza charging that his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame wants
The Pretoria High Court will hear an urgent application for the arrest of Sudan’s president Omar al Bashir who’s arrived for 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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