Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane scrapped plans to go home yesterday (Tuesday) as gunfire and power cuts ratcheted up tension in the capital Maseru overnight.
Lawmakers from South Africa’s firebrand Economic Freedom Fighters party have hailed the decision not immediately to proceed with plans to suspend to suspend them from
Continued unrest in Lesotho seems to have delayed Prime Minister Thomas Thabane planned return today. Sporadic gunfire has been heard in the capital Maseru and
Lesotho’s prime minister Thomas Thabane’s going home today – ending a brief exile in South Africa. Regional mediators will reinstall him in power after an
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet says she’s withdrawn her country’s ambassador to Israel because she believes the humanitarian tragedy in the Middle East has to end.
By Jean-Jacques Cornish There are more questions than answers as the United States hosts four dozen African leaders for their first summit in Washington this
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana Mashebane explains why President Jacob Zuma snubbed last year’s EU Africa summit because some of his peers
President Jacob Zuma has undertaken to give South Africa’s parliamentary Speaker a comprehensive and final report within the month on the controversy surrounding security improvements
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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