Jeremy Mansfield was a South African radio and television personality. He worked on numerous radio stations as a presenter and voice-over artist, and also presented numerous television shows, and inserts for popular television magazine programmes.
Jeremy Mansfield dies: Cause of death revealed
Jeremy Mansfield passed away at the age of 59 years. He died on October 31, 2022, after a battle with stage 4 liver cancer. He passed away peacefully at his home and was surrounded by unending love from his loved ones.
Robert Jeremy Clayton Mansfield better known as Jeremy Mansfield was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. He attended school at the prestigious Kingswood College. He remained in Grahamstown attending Rhodes University, where he studied Speech and Drama and Journalism.
In 1985, while still a student, he started working for the Durban-based radio station Capital Radio 604. During the same year, he was awarded the AA Vita Award as The Most Promising Young South African Actor. In 1990, Mansfield left Capital Radio which was then broadcasting from Johannesburg. He was recruited to work for Super Sport on M-Net and was requested to do sport on the John Berks show on the Primedia-owned 702 Talk Radio.
Mansfield’s popularity continued to grow, and in 1993 he was appointed as a regular presenter of 702’s Saturday Afternoon magazine program. In 1995 Mansfield took over hosting the afternoon show.
In the mid-1990s, Mansfield started appearing as a featured contributor and guest presenter on South African Pay television channels M-Net for Front Row and SuperSport. In 1998 he left the channel and started presenting A Word or 2, on SABC 2. The show ran for 10 seasons.
Mansfield has released five CDs containing characters he created on-air, humorous stories and songs most of which he wrote himself, poking fun at many South African personalities and situations.
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