Jihadis are adamant their deadly battle to silence freedom of speech rages on despite yesterday’s bloody ending to the two hostage crisis that left three
Jihadis are adamant their deadly battle to silence freedom of speech rages on despite yesterday’s bloody ending to the two hostage crisis that left three
The two jihadis being sought for the massacre at French magazine on Wednesday have reportedly stolen a car and are heading back to Paris. French
Security forces are hunkering down in the town of Dammartin on the northeastern outskirts of Paris, hoping to get a peaceful end to the siege
As French troops and police search house-to-house for jihadi brothers who mounted a deadly assault on a Paris magazine office, religious leaders have made an
The 48-hour hunt for the men who gunned down a dozen people at the offices of a satirical magazine in Paris has ended on the
French police have made contact with the Kouachi brothers who say they want to die as martyrs. The jihadists are under siege in a small
Two brothers suspected of having gunned down 12 people in a jihadi attack on satirical magazine in Paris yesterday have been spotted north east of
France’s biggest security operation in living memory is playing out along the N2 highway heading north east out of Paris. It is on this route,
France is at this hour observing a moments silence for the 12 people who died in yesterday’s terror attack on a satirical magazine in Paris.
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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