South Africa prosecuting authority’s in the Appeal Court today (Wednesday) trying to get a longer prison sentence for Oscar Pistorius who murdered his model lover
Oscar Pistorius is back in Kgosi Mampuru prison in Pretoria to serve out the six year sentence murder imposed on him for murder. He has
A psychiatrist who examined fallen Olympian Oscar Pistorius for the State during his seven-month trial two years ago for shooting his lover Reeva Steenkamp says
Oscar Pistorius has been denied leave to try and have South Africa’s Constitutional Court overturn his murder conviction for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
Lawyers for jailed Paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius will be back in court next month challenging the state’s right to appeal his sentence for manslaughter and
Paralympian Oscar Pistorius serving a five year jail sentence for the manslaughter of his lover has been granted new privileges. Pistorius becomes eligible for release
Both the state and the defence present their final arguments in the Pretoria High Court today on how Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius should be punished
The defence in Oscar Pistorius’s murder trial is expected to close its case in the Pretoria High Court today. The prosecution’s been trying to punch
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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