Joost van der Westhuizen is a South African former rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for the national team. He played in the 1995, the 1999 and the 2003 Rugby World Cups. His honours include the Currie Cup twice, a Tri-Nations title and the World Cup. In July 2004 he joined Supersport as a commentator. His contract with the channel was later terminated. On 12 May 2011, Van der Westhuizen's publicist announced that he had a muscle related neural disease, believed to be a form of motor neurone disease. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States have since confirmed that the former Springbok captain has Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and has only a 20% chance of living longer than five years from diagnosis. [More at Wikipedia]

February 20th, 1971 in Pretoria  /  Died:   Feb 6th, 2017 - aged 45