Robert Jeremy Clayton Mansfield (15 August 1963 – 31 October 2022) was a South African radio and television celebrity.
[3] Mansfield's popularity continued to grow, and in 1993, he was appointed as a regular presenter of 702's Saturday Afternoon magazine program.
[1] In 1997, Mansfield moved to 702 Talk Radio's sister station 94.7 Highveld Stereo where he created and hosted the hugely popular weekday breakfast show, The Rude Awakening which at its peak was the most commercially successful show in southern Africa with over 1.5 million listeners.
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 2010, Mansfield was cast in Disney's local release of Toy Story 3 as the voice of Lifer.
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.
[10][1] 1985: AA Vita Award as The Most Promising Young South African Actor[2] 1996–2010: Best Radio Personality of the year (Best of Johannesburg Readers' Choice Awards)[11] wins 14 years in a row 1996–2010: Best Radio Show wins 14 years in a row 2004: The only radio personality to make the Top 100 South Africans list Won Leisure Options' Most Popular Personality 2008: Three wins in the South African sector of the Gourmand Cookbook Awards: wins Book of the Year, Innovative and Media for 'Zhoozsh!
Mansfield was thanked personally by South Africa's former president Nelson Mandela for the charity work he had done which raised over R12 million.