{"id":86783,"date":"2017-02-06T22:34:54","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/former-south-african-rugby-captain-joost-van-der-westhuizen-dies-aged-45\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T22:34:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T20:34:54","slug":"former-south-african-rugby-captain-joost-van-der-westhuizen-dies-aged-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/former-south-african-rugby-captain-joost-van-der-westhuizen-dies-aged-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Former South African rugby captain Joost van der Westhuizen dies, aged 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/former-south-african-rugby-captain-joost-van-der-westhuizen-dies-aged-45\/\">Former South African rugby captain Joost van der Westhuizen dies, aged 45<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p>London: Rugby World Cup winner Joost van der Westhuizen has died after a long battle with motor neurone disease at the age of 45. The former South Africa halfback was diagnosed with the condition in 2011 and was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital on Saturday morning. Van der Westhuizen became one of rugby&#39;s greatest scrum-halves in a 10-year Springboks career which began in 1993 and spanned 89 caps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the full article by  here:<\/strong> Johannesburg, South Africa News<\/p>\n<p><strong>Submit and get free press releases here:<\/strong> MyPR Free Press Release.<\/p>\n<p>Click HERE to submit your Johannesburg or Gauteng Press Release.<\/p>\n<p><small><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\/former-south-african-rugby-captain-joost-van-der-westhuizen-dies-aged-45\/\">MyJHB<\/a><\/small><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/myjhb.co.za\">MyJHB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join the fun:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/add-your-event\/\">Add Your event<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mypr.co.za\/submit\">Submit a Press Release<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/directory\/\">Add your listing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former South African rugby captain Joost van der Westhuizen dies, aged 45: London: Rugby World Cup winner Joost van der Westhuizen has died after a long battle with motor neurone disease at the age of 45. The former South Africa halfback was diagnosed with the condition in 2011 and was admitted to a Johannesburg hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[3050,5448,3785,2232,6660,24002,8293,3576,4545],"class_list":{"0":"post-86783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-african","8":"tag-aged","9":"tag-captain","10":"tag-dies","11":"tag-former","12":"tag-joost","13":"tag-rugby","14":"tag-south","15":"tag-westhuizen","16":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}