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This farewell to a Bok hero was fit for a king

Peter Jackson reports on the outpouring of emotion at the funeral of Joost van der Westhuizen

They carried his oak coffin out of Loftus Versveld a few minutes before three o’clock on Friday afternoon at the end of a funeral fit for a king. Even in death, on his final journey out of arguably the most sacred of all Springbok shrines, Joost van der Westhuizen kept raising the bar. No rugby player has ever been granted a state funeral but none came closer to one than the scrum-half who, more than anyone, gave Nelson Mandela the excuse to be jigging for joy at the end of the 1995 World C...

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