Having addressed his first African Union summit, President Cyril Ramaphosa will today preside over a ceremony naming a street in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott after
South African singer, activist and ex-MP Jennifer Ferguson alleges the country’s former football boss and prominent member of the African National Congress Danny Jordaan raped
President Jacob Zuma will go to Havana at the weekend to attend Sunday’s funeral of the late former President of Cuba Fidel Castro. The presidency’s
Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Luwellyn Landers and his Chilean counterpart Edgardo Riveros presided over the sixth meeting of the Joint Cooperation
South Africans go to the polls today for the closest fought election since the onset of democracy 22 years ago. The ruling African National Congress,
After two hours of talks in Pretoria today President Jacob Zuma and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi elected not to take questions from the media.
The former wife of the late Nelson Mandela has lost her legal bid to get ownership of the first black South African president’s home at
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
Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years as a political prisoner is soon to become a symbol of renewable energy. The
South Africa’s rolling out the red carpet at the Union Buildings and firing a 21-gun salute for Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe starting his state
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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