President Jacob Zuma’s supporters have taken a defiant air as leadership elements in the South African ruling alliance question the wisdom of keeping him on
There have been calls for the impeachment of President Jacob Zuma and the dissolution of Parliament after South Africa’s highest court found that both had
President Jacob Zuma has apologised to the South African public for the confusion and frustration caused by the drawn out controversy over public funds being
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari says MTN aided terror group Boko Haram by not disconnecting unsold mobile phone SIM card. Breaking his silence on the multi-billion
Nigerian media is saying President Jacob Zuma has offered South African collaboration with Nigeria in the war on terror – specifically in fighting Boko Haram.
President Jacob Zuma says South Africa and Nigeria have a leadership role to play to achieve peace and prosperity in Africa. Addressing a joint session
President Jacob Zuma has a raft of issues to cover when he goes to Nigeria next week with strong delegation of ministers and business leaders.
President Jacob Zuma’s come home from a summit in Russia ready to talk to the Chief Justice regarding concerns about political interference in the judiciary.
The African Union summit in Sandton next weekend will put President Jacob Zuma on the spot explaining what his government’s doing about xeonophobic attacks in
African leaders from three trade blocs have signed a Cape To Cairo free trade deal involving 26 countries and more than 600 million people. The
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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