Uganda’s High Court has ordered MPs to pay back a lump sum they got for helping fight COVID 19 in their constituencies. Last week the
While we are urged to fight COVID 19 by sitting on the couch, at least four African A-listers have chosen music as their preferred weapons.
Ugandan journalists are demanding the release a filmmaker jailed while facing charges for making a documentary about a political opponent of President Yoweri Museveni. They
Four African heads of state have met on the Uganda/Rwanda border to ease tensions that have paralyzed the movement of good and people between these
by Jean-Jacques Cornish The election currently underway in Malawi perfectly illustrates the generational battle in African politics. Peter Mutharika, vying for a second and final
By a majority vote, Uganda’s Supreme Court has upheld a law scrapping the age limit of 75 years for a sitting president. This will allow
Tension’s mounting along the Rwanda/Uganda border which has been partially closed for a week. Uganda denies Rwandan accusations that its supporting rebels opposing President Paul
Uganda’s expulsion of the top local management structure of MTN has put President Yoweri Museveni at odds with at least five countries. The South African
Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza’s calling for a regional summit to discuss what he calls open conflict with neighboring Rwanda. The request has gone to Uganda’s
Ugandan opposition MP Bobi Wine has been rearrested at Entebbe International Airport trying to leave the country to get medical treatment. Authorities say they are
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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