SuperSport will broadcast the memorial service of Joost van der Westhuizen live on Friday from 12:00 on DStv.

SuperSport will broadcast the memorial service of the former Springbok rugby captain Joost van der Westhuizen live on Friday, 10 February from 12:00 until 15:30.

Meanwhile the SABC is also trying to acquire the right to broadcast the memorial service on Friday.

Joost van der Westhuizen (45) died on Monday afternoon after losing his struggle against Motor Neuron Disease.

Besides the SuperSport broadcast on MultiChoice's DStv satellite pay-TV platform on SuperSport 1 (DStv 201), SuperSport will also stream the memorial service live on supersport.com

The memorial service will follow an earlier church funeral service that will not be broadcast by SuperSport.

On Friday there will be a build-up from Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria from 12:00, with the offocial memorial service proceedings that's scheduled to start at 12:30. SuperSport's broadcast will conclude at 15:30.

The SABC hasn't yet acquired any rights to broadcast the memorial service but is working to try and do it as well.

M-Net Movies Showcase adds Joost van der Westhuizen documentary, Glory Game, to its schedule tonight 9pm, after death of the rugby player.

Following the death of rugby player Joost van der Westhuizen on Monday afternoon, M-Net Movies Showcase (DStv 107) is adding the documentary film, Glory Game, to its schedule that the pay-TV broadcaster will show on Monday night at 21:00.

The 86 minute documentary from Blink Pictures, executive produced by Odette Schwegler and Joost van der Westhuizen with Odette Schwegler as director, covers the former Springbok rugby hero's struggle with the crippling Motor Neuron Disease he was diagnosed with a few years ago.

The documentary includes interviews with commentators and former rugby players, as well as Joost van der Westhuizen himself who said that he was told he only had two years life to live. "I said 'stuff them', I will decide when I go".

"In the beginning you go through all the emotions. And you start to ask, 'Why me?' And It's quite simple. Why not me?"

From former South African Springbok captain to his scandalous fall from grace and his valiant battle with the disease that claimed his life on Monday afternoon, Joost van der Westhuizen lived a very public life.

In Glory Game he gave cameras an up close and personal look as he once again laid himself bare to the world in his fight for survival against Motor Neuron Disease.

Glory Game is described as "a compelling tale of redemption, set against the backdrop of sporting glory"and "the story of a modern day warrior forced to face his own human frailty. He discovers that beyond fame and success, lies the true wealth of life and shows that within a ravaged body can surge the spirit of a survivor."

Glory Game will be repeated on Saturday 11 February at 12:10 on M-Net Movies Showcase.

Expresso on SABC3 books Joost van der Westhuizen for a live in-studio appearance on Tuesday 22 January.

SABC3's breakfast show Expresso on weekdays between 06:00 and 08:30 has booked the ill Joost van der Westhuizen for a live interview on Tuesday 22 January.

According to the show Joost van der Westhuizen will be cooking his favourite dish live in the Expresso kitchen and talk about his rugby memories.
The production didn't indicate whether he would be talking about his ex wife Amor, his kids, or his illness which all remain constant South African tabloid fodder.

It is unusual for Expresso to make specific mention of a specific upcoming, single guest.

BREAKING. Funny Joost TV apology moment doing the rounds as a comic strip.

You're seeing it here first. Well, maybe. It could already be in your inbox.

I got this in today, which means Joost van der Westhuizen has gonna totally internet viral. It's a little joke from his firt TV interview this past Wednesday on kykNET's Kwêla with host Coenie de Villiers.
First a disclaimer. These are not my screengrabs. Mine (elsewhere on this blog of mine). I'm not aware of who the author and creator is, so i can't give a copyright mention. It popped up in my email and it's being sent around to many people.

Just click on it below, and it will open bigger.

Enjoy.

BREAKING. Hard hitting Carte Blanche expose coming on Joost's media mea culpa.

You're reading it here first. A quick programming note is that M-Net's investigative magazine TV show Carte Blanche is planning a hard-hitting story for tomorrow evening at 19:00 on Joost van der Westhuizen.

After Wednesday night's first live and exclusive interview on Kwêla, Thursday's soft ball pre-taped interview with the magazine show All Access on M-Net and the weekend's scandalous admission after months that it really was him (to co-incide with the launch of his book this past Monday and the Afrikaans version hitting the streets this coming Monday), Carte Blanche is looking at HOW REAL Joost van der Westhuizen's plea for forgiveness all really is.

Carte Blanche first interviewed Joost van der Westhuizen in 1998, at the peak of his career. ''More than a decade on, his off-field antics have taken him from hero to zero,'' Carte Blanche tell me for the insert that presenter Devi Sankaree Govender and award winning producer Susan Puren has been working on this week. ''He's now trying to gain credibility in his autobiography which sold out in a day. BUT JUST HOW CREDIBLE IS IT - AND WILL IT SAVE HIS MARRIAGE?''

BREAKING. Joost van der Westhuizen: 'All I can do is to say I'm sorry'. More quotes from his dramatic live interview

You're reading it here first. Here's some more quotes from Joost van der Westhuizen from his live and exclusive TV interview earlier tonight on Kwêla on kykNET (DStv 111). Kwêla got Joost first after his admission this past Sunday for what is surely the TV interview SCOOP OF THE YEAR.
Here is more of what Joost had to say in the  wide-ranging interview with Coenie de Villiers:

on when people now stop him in the street:
'All I can do is to look people in the eye and say I'm sorry.'

on how he felt when the story broke and he saw the video and knew it was him:
'Fear. Shock. Fear. From ''This can't be happening!'' You know you're going to lose your wife . . . you're going to lose your kids. This mess I've gotten myself into was my own fault, but it was three and a half years ago, not eight months ago - but now I can't tell people that. I drank a lot, I partied a lot. I told a lot of lies. You've conned a lot of people. You got involved with the wrong things like the drugs and then it comes back and bites you in the behind.'

on his wife Amor's interview on Kwêla a few months ago, defending him, when he haven't told her the truth yet:
'I have the utmost respect for my wife. When she sat here, she didn't know it was all lies.'

on Mike Bolhuis, the private investigator Joost hired to help him with the cover-up and is now making all kinds of allegations as well:
'I don't blame Mike Bolhuis. I went to Mike Bolhuis. Yes, we walked together. I'm not going to get entangled with Mike Bolhuis in the media. When I walk away here today, I close my chapter. There is nothing I can do at the past. There's a lot I can do in the future.'

on Charmaine Weavers (Gale), who just admitted to also having had an affair with Joost today:
'If I have to go back in my life . . . there's many things. The video was the thing that created the upheaval. If I now have to go back and apologize for every little thing I'm going to be sitting here for a very long time. If I deny it, they bring out a lot more girls. No matter what I say, it will be in the papers tomorrow.'

on Marilize van Emmenis, the girl in the sex video with him:
'No [I've never had contact with her again]. I'm asking people to forgive me. And I also have to forgive other people. Just like my situation they know they've made mistakes. Just as I was a bad guy, they were bad guys. I'm not angry. I should never have gotten myself into that situation in the first place. That's why I'm sitting here tonight - to rectify my situation.'

BREAKING. Joost van der Westhuizen's mea culpa - his first, live and exclusive TV appearance. And what he had to say!

You're seeing it here first! Joost van der Westhuizen, infamous for the leaked sex tape in February that he just this past Sunday admitted for the first time was him (taking drugs), just made his first LIVE and EXCLUSIVE TV appearance on Kwêla on kykNET (DStv 111).

''I ALMOST LOST MY LIFE,'' Joost said - and later: ''I fell hard on my ass.''

In the wide-ranging interview - I was the first to break the news that Kwêla got the Joost exclusive - host Coenie de Villiers didn't hold back on his probing questions.

Joost seemed emotional. His voice was sometimes-shaky and he looked somewhat-fatigued. He admitted that he HAS LOST 13 kg.

''It was a rough week,'' he said, ''but it was my own fault. It's a fight I have to fight and I will get to the other side.''

Joost van der Westhuizen told Coenie that he is sitting in the live interview ''in shame'' and that he was ''humiliated''. ''I want to apologize for what I did to that woman [Amor, his wife] and to the people. I wrote this book for my two children. I can't expect my two children to be honest if I'm not honest with them and their mother.'' 

''I'm asking for forgiveness right here on Kwêla. This is my life. I led it wrongly. I want to make it right. These things happen to make me a better person, not a bitter person. I want to walk out of this a better guy. I'm a man. I made mistakes. I got caught. Now I have to make it right. There is just one road and that is the truth. My message is simple: Don't live a lie.''

He almost became emotional talking about his wife and children later during the 15 minute interview.

''I can still lose my wife and children. She is still very raw. She is still in a lot of pain. What I'm going through is the worst of times and she still stands with me. She is a remarkable woman. I ask myself: How could you have done this Joost? I get it now: People thought I was arrogant and windgat. Yes I was. But I never knew it. I fell hard on my ass.''

BREAKING. Joost van der Westhuizen's exclusive, first and LIVE TV interview. I know when and where it's happening!

You're reading it here first. After his shocking revelation on Sunday that it was indeed him in the sex video taking drugs that surfaced in February, Joost van der Westhuizen is getting ready for his first exclusive and live TV interview.

Joost will talk to Coenie de Villiers on Wednesday night at 20:00 on Kwêla on kykNET (DStv 111). Kwêla has snagged the first and exclusive and live interview with Joost in which he will be pouring out his heart to the nation on national television in what promises to be THE MOST DRAMATIC LIVE TV MOMENT OF THE YEAR!

Yesterday afternoon I spoke to Pieter Cilliers, producer of Kwêla.

The interview is for Joost to talk about his new book, but it's an interview in which Joost set no conditions (celebrity interviews often set guidelines for topics and subjects that are off limits and not to be discussed).

''It will be a NO HOLDS BARRED INTERVIEW,'' Pieter told me.

''The Joost camp made no demands. Joost is willing to do the TV interview without any limitations being set on what he can and cannot be asked about.''

''Kwêla doesn't sky away from issues and people and subjects, but we give people the opportunity to tell their side of the story. It's visible in the sheer amount of people who have chosen us when they want to talk. In Joost's case I think that is why we're again first with this exclusive interview.''

Kwêla has tried for several months to secure an interview with Joost.

''Joost is now here, on Wednesday night, in the studio and he will be pouring his heart out. On television he will get the chance to say whatever he wants to say to South Africa. Kwêla is a safe space for him to do that. It's a live TV interview, so it's not something that we can or will ever manipulate. The interview will go wherever the interview goes.''

''Even if it's sensitive topics, Coenie de Villiers always make studio guests feel at ease and safe to be just themselves and to open their hearts.''

BREAKING. SuperSport drops Joost van der Westhuizen.

                                                            M-Net's SuperSport has dropped Joost van der Westhuizen with immediate effect and ended their contract with him as sport commentator.

This comes after Joost's admission that it was indeed him in the sex video in which he can be seen taking drugs that created a huge media storm since February.


SuperSport who used Joost as presenter and commentator is no longer in any mood to be associated with him and yesterday, didn't want to talk to me about it AT ALL. SuperSport was not willing to comment on the matter AT ALL.
Joost said he thought that SuperSport might now drop him since ''SuperSport has a brand to protect''.

SuperSport didn't issue a press release yesterday, but just made a small announcement on their  SuperSport website with 4 POINTS:

1. SuperSport has perused extracts from Joost van der Westhuizen’s biography ” The Man in the Mirror” and held discussions with him.

2. Following those discussions, SuperSport and Joost have mutually agreed to terminate the freelance agreement between them, forthwith.

3.SuperSport thanks Joost for his contributions as a commentator and presenter and wishes him all the best for the future.

4.SuperSport shall make no further comment on this matter.