The 285-strong regional security force helping restore peace and stability in Lesotho has withdrawn from the mountain kingdom. Prime Minister Thomas Thabane says respect for
Lesotho’s neighbors have opted to deploy a contingent force of military, security, intelligence and civilian experts to determine exactly what Lesotho needs to restore peace
President Jacob Zuma’s condemned the killing of Lesotho’a army chief by a military officer and called for calm and restraint in the mountain kingdom. A
The Southern African Development Community has deplored yesterday’s killing of Lesotho’s army chief. Premier Thomas Thabane says everything in the mountain kingdom is under control.
Lesotho’s army chief Lieutenant General Khoantle Motsomotso has been shot dead by soldiers who were gently fired. Defence Minister Sentile Lebona has confirmed the death.
Official results from Lesotho’s snap election last Saturday show the mountain kingdom will be run by another coalition government. No party has secured enough votes
After talks with Lesotho’s major political players, President Jacob Zuma’s office says early elections will go ahead in the mountain kingdom as planned at the
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s not commenting on Lesotho’s demand for the expulsion of two senior South African policemen guarding prime minister Tom Thabane. Ramaphosa’s visiting
Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to have brokered the end to the mutiny of a renegade general who’s blamed for an abortinve coup attempt in
In his capacity as regional facilitator for Lesotho, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s returned to the mountain kingdom for the reconvening of parliament in Maseru. The
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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