Joost van der Westhuizen

Joost van der Westhuizen, born in 1971 and died in 2017, was a South African professional rugby union player who made 89 test appearances for the Springboks and scored 38 tries, mostly as a scrum-half. He played in three Rugby World Cups, most notably the 1995 tournament that South Africa won, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest scrum-halves in the history of the sport. He captained the national side ten times and was part of the team that won the first Tri-Nations title in 1998. He played for the Blue Bulls from 1993 to 2003, winning the Currie Cup in 1998 and 2002, and later raised awareness of motor neurone disease through his J9 Foundation.