Cape Town – South African veteran radio and TV personality Jeremy Mansfield died in the early hours of this morning.
Jeremy who announced his stage 4 liver cancer diagnosis earlier this year died at the age of 59.
His former colleague and friend, Samantha Cowen confirmed the sad news in a statement on Monday.
“This morning a light went out in the world. Jeremy Mansfield passed away just before dawn. He died peacefully at home surrounded by family and friends and boundless love,” Cowen wrote on her Facebook page.
Cowen described the radio legend as a man who was larger than life with a huge soft heart.
“Jeremy lived large, he didn’t know how to do small. He loved hard, laughed loud and managed to combine mischief and mayhem with heart and soul. The city was brighter and lighter with him on the airwaves, he changed lives every day. When he wasn’t raising millions for charity, he was raising fresh hell!” she wrote.
Though the airwaves legend was in the palliative care stage, he was determined to make the most of the time he had by doing things on his bucket list.
“Have had it confirmed by the specialist surgeon that is leading everyone in the team looking after me that my cancer is confirmed stage 4, terminal and is now only subject to palliative care. This dream team (as I now refer to them) will now guide me through how to have as much fun in the the time I have left and fulfill as many dreams, big and small, I have in my bucketlist,” he wrote on Facebook in August.
He recently made his first appearance on social media since the terminal diagnosis, to thank fans for their support and well-wishes and updated fans on his journey describing it saying “its being up and down”.
For decades on radio, Mansfield was famous for his show on Radio 702, Highveld Stereo and Hot 91,9 radio, reported TshisaLIVE.
He also presented SABC2’s A Word or 2 , M-Net’s Front Row, and worked with Supersport. He published the best-selling Vrot Jokes book.
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Compiled by Olwethu Mpeshe
