13 things about Mister Global South Africa 2022 Petrus Nel

Dr. Petrus “Pierre” Nel is an alumnus of Uplands College in White River, Mpumalanga, South Africa and the University of Pretoria in Hatfield, Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. He represented the country in the eighth edition of Mister Global.

BIOGRAPHY

Nel is a South African doctor, singer, songwriter and beauty king originally from White River. He was born in 1994.

From White River, Nel moved to Pretoria. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. From 2006 to 2010, he attended Uplands College.
2. From 2011 2016, he attended the University of Pretoria where he earned his bachelor’s degree in medicine and surgery.
3. From 2017 to 2018, he was a medical intern at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
4. He worked at Witbank Hospital in Witbank, Mpumalanga as a community service medical officer in 2019 and a medical officer in ophthalmology from 2020 to 2021.
5. He released a single in 2020, another single in 2022 and three singles in 2025.
6. In 2021, he joined Curo Oncology Center in Pretoria as a medical officer in oncology.
7. In 2022, he visited Mozambique.
8. He is Mister Global South Africa 2022.
9. He was a Mister Global 2022 semifinalist.
10. In 2023, he visited Thailand.
11. He was a Miss Teen World South Africa 2023 judge.
12. In 2024, he visited France and Namibia.
13. In 2025, he visited Switzerland, Indonesia and the United States.

TIMELINE

As a musician, Nel is also known as Nelven. He is the fifth man to represent South Africa in Mister Global.

2010s

• In November 2014, he visited different parts of Western Cape, South Africa including Stellenbosch and Somerset West.
• In October 2015, he visited Tonga Hospital in Malelane, Mpumalanga.
• From January 2017, he joined Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town as an intern.
• In December 2018, his internship at Tygerberg Hospital ended.
• From January 2019 to December 2019, he was a Witbank Hospital community service medical officer.

2020s

• In January 2020, he became a medical officer in ophthalmology at Witbank Hospital.
• In May 2021, he left Witbank Hospital.
• In June 2021, he joined Curo Oncology Center.
• On September 1, 2020, he released his single “Collide“.
• In August 2022, he traveled to Mozambique.
• In September 2022, he was crowned Mister Global South Africa 2022.
• On November 5, 2022, he released single “Lovers“.
• On February 11, 2023, he represented South Africa at Mister Global 2023 and competed against 38 other candidates at the Royal Park Rajapruek in Chiang Mai, Thailand. He finished in the Top 15.
• On April 22, 2023, he attended Mister Supranational South Africa 2023 at The Venue in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg, Gauteng.
• On June 10, 2023, he served as a judge at Miss Teen World South Africa 2023 at The South African State Theatre in Pretoria.
• In July 2023, he traveled to Ressano Garcia, Maputo, Mozambique.
• In January 2024, he traveled to Èze, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France.
• In June 2024, he traveled to Sossusvlei in the Namib Desert in the Namib-Naukluft National Park of Namibia.
• In February 2025, he traveled to Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland.
• In March 2025, he traveled to Bali, Indonesia.
• On August 28, 2025, he released his single “Melody”.
• On October 24, 2025, he released his single “The Good, The Bad and The Beautiful”.
• On October 28, 2025, he met The Bellamy Brothers at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
• On November 28, 2025, he released his single “Jingle all the Way”.