Congolese businessman and opposition politician Moïse Katumbi, who has returned from three years in exile, plans a nation-wide tour after re-establishing contact with family and
The power sharing deal between incumbent President Felix Tshisekedi and his over-archingly ambitious predecessor Joseph Kabila comes as no surprise. Analysts believe it was stitched
Congolese presidential candidate Martin Fayulu persists that he won won the election at the December and calls for peaceful resistance against the government of President
by Jean-Jacques Cornish Of the many brickbats justifiably being hurled at the Congo’s new President Felix Tshisekdi, daddy’s boy is not one of them. Nepotism
Outgoing Congolese President Joseph Kabila calls on his compatriots to massively support his successor Felix Tshisikedi who’s due to be inaugurated today. Kabila says he’ll
Felix Tshisikedi has been declared the winner of Presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The electoral commission says he won 39% of the
Opposition candidate for the Congolese presidency Martin Fayulu says that country’s election results are not negotiable. He’s urging the electoral commission to publish that results
At South Africa’s request, the United Nations Security Council has postponed until Friday its meeting scheduled for today on the Democratic Republic of Congo where
Human Rights Watch says South Africa must exert maximum diplomatic pressure on the Congolese government to publish real results of the December 30 Presidential election.
South Africa’s appealed for calm in post-election Democratic Republic of Congo and urged the people of that country to show patience and wait for official
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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