Strydom, 58, was a member of the Springbok team that won the 1995 World Cup in South Africa.
SPRINGBOK LEGEND DIES
According to a report on Netwerk24 on Monday morning, the accident that took Strydom’s happened on the N4 just before eMalahleni in the direction of Pretoria.
Strydom is the fifth member of the 1995 Springbok squad to have passed away. He is now a fifth member of the 1995 squad that has passed away, along with Ruben Kruger, Joost van der Westhuizen, James Small and Chester Williams also passed on in recent years.
Strydom played 21 Tests for the Springboks and represented Transvaal – where he formed a formidable second-row combination with Kobus Wiese – and Northern Transvaal domestically.
HIS LIFE AFTER RUGBY
Away from rugby, Strydom was a qualified pharmacist and had a group of three pharmacies under the name of Pharma Valu in Pretoria. He also had his own range of vitamins called Health & Wellness and another range called HNS, which includes the unique slimming products called HNS New Me and HNS New Man.
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