South Africa’s withdrawn its ambassador from Rwanda over insulting language used against Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu. Authorities in Kigali are livid
It is a depressing truism of modern, multilateral diplomacy that after a two-year term as temporary member of the United Nations Security Council, a country
President Cyril Ramaphosa leaving tonight for Argentina where he’s attend his first G20 summit as South Africa’s leader. The gathering of the world’s richest leaders
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
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu welcomes the agreement reached with the Independent Electoral Commission about South Africa’s diplomatic missions abroad being used
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu heads to Russia for the meeting of body driving bilateral relations. The Committee on Intergovernmental Trade and
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu says South African journalist Angela Quintal rescued by her High Commissioner in Dar es Salaam had broken
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu has congratulated Mozambique on completion of the Africa’s longest suspension bridge. Drive over Maputo Bay cuts
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu led colleagues and former departmental personnel in a memorial for a predecessor Pik Botha. The man who
The South African government expressed its gratitude to President Salva Kiir for pardoning a South African mercenary sitting on death row in Juba. Former South
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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