With the renewed media interest in van Niekerk this week, Sport24 reached out for an interview.
From his “organic farm turned healing sanctuary”, the former Springbok has touched on a number of interesting topics these past few weeks.
On a video that’s been doing the rounds on social media and WhatsApp over the past few days, Big Joe has some words for the ‘brothers’.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a Joe van Niekerk sighting make the news, and the 38-year-old former Bok seems to enjoying life away from prying eyes.
It’s been a while since we’ve seen Big Joe on the radar, and now he has popped up somewhere off the beaten track.
We have to doff our caps to this gentleman who went to great lengths to track down Big Joe van Niekerk. Guess we know where he is then.
After a picture of Joe van Niekerk did the rounds two weeks ago many fans wondered what the story behind it was. Then this arrived yesterday.
Plying his trade over in France (before retiring last year) has meant some SA rugby fans have forgotten about Big Joe van Niekerk. Until yesterday it seems.