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South African lawyer

Gerhard C. "Gerrie" Nel (, born 1961)^[1] is a South African advocate.

Until January 2017, he was a prosecutor for the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) of South Africa.^[2] He is nicknamed "Bulldog" for his tenacity in the courtroom, and is regularly assigned to difficult and high-profile cases.^[3]

Education and legal career

Nel matriculated from Hoërskool Piet Potgieter in Potgietersrus in the Limpopo province in 1979,^[4][5] and studied law in Pretoria.^[6]

Nel started working as a prosecutor in 1984.^[5] He was a junior prosecutor in the trial of Clive Derby-Lewis and Janusz Waluś, who were both convicted in connection with the assassination of anti-apartheid activist Chris Hani in 1993.^[5][7] He was the Gauteng Regional Head of the NPA's Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions) business unit from its inception in 1999 until it was disband