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14 Facts About Jeremy Nell

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Jeremy Talfer Nell was born on 1979 and is a South African cartoonist who writes under the pen name Jerm.

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Jeremy Nell was previously requested to retract a homophobic statement made on another social network, Twitter.

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Jeremy Talfer Nell was born in 1979 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Jeremy Nell became a cartoonist in November 2005, after being retrenched.

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In 2010, Jeremy Nell became the first political cartoonist for the newly launched The New Age, a pro-ANC daily newspaper.

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In 2012, Jeremy Nell became the first political cartoonist for Eyewitness News.

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In 2013, Jeremy Nell became the first political cartoonist for the eNCA television network.

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In December 2014, Jeremy Nell was forced to apologise for making a homophobic remark online.

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In January 2020, after Democratic Alliance chairperson Helen Zille shared a controversial racial cartoon created by Jeremy Nell, Facebook closed Jeremy Nell's public page, which had nearly 60,000 followers.

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Jeremy Nell said he had previously violated the site's rules against hate speech.

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Jeremy Nell worked for the South African Institute of Race Relations's online publication The Daily Friend between 2019 and 2021.

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Jeremy Nell joined TNT Radio in 2022 and hosts his own show.

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Jeremy Nell won the national 2011 Vodacom Journalist of the Year Cartoon of the Year award for his cartoon Africa 2.0.

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Jeremy Nell was a finalist at the 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards.