As SA faces Japan today on the Rugby World Cup opening weekend, we look to our heroes of yesterday, and in particular one man who is fighting his own battle off the field.
When Rugby legend, Joost Van der Westhuizen, discovered he had motor neuron disease his life was turned updside-down. He tells his story in a new documentary.
As if being diagnosed with motor neuron disease wasn’t enough, Joost van der Westhuizen was told that he only had a 20% chance of living two more years.
Devastated, but with the determination of a South African Springbok rugby player, Van der Westhuizen decided, “Stuff them – I will decide when I go.”
Van der Westhuizen was diagnosed with motor neuron disease, also known as ALS, in 2011.
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