Jeremy Mansfield

Robert Jeremy Clayton Mansfield (15 August 1963 – 31 October 2022) was a South African radio and television celebrity. He worked on numerous radio stations as a presenter, and also presented numerous television shows and inserts for popular television magazine programs.

Early life Mansfield was born in Grahamstown, South Africa. He attended school at Kingswood College. He remained in Grahamstown attending Rhodes University, where he studied speech, drama and journalism.

Television and film

In the mid-1990s, Mansfield started appearing as a features 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.

In 2010, Mansfield was cast in Disney's local release of Toy Story 3 as the voice of Lifer.

In 2010, Mansfield hosted his own weekly finance show, Mansfield's Moneysense on CNBC Africa.

CDs, books, tableware

Mansfield 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.

Mansfield leant his name to a number of joke books, of which Vrot Jokes (ISBN|978-1-86872-335-5) is a South African bestseller.

With his wife, Jacqui, wrote the multi award-winning contemporary cookbook titled Zhoozsh! (ISBN|978-1-77007-785-0) in February 2009. It won over seven awards including Best Cook Book in South Africa and Third Best Cook Book in the World at the Gourmand Awards. Their second cookbook, Zhoozsh! Faking It (ISBN|9781770078659) is also an award-winner. Both books are best-sellers and resulted in their own range of tableware, sold through home decor stores.

Death Mansfield was diagnosed with liver cancer in January 2022. He died on 31 October 2022, at the age of 59.

1996–2010: Best Radio Personality of the year (Best of Johannesburg Readers' Choice Awards)

2008: Three wins in the South African sector of the Gourmand Cookbook Awards for Jeremy and Jacqui Mansfield: wins Book of the Year, Innovative and Media for Zhoozsh!