Rugby World Cup winner Kobus Wiese is recovering in a Cape Town hospital after suffering a heart attack, fellow former Springbok Toks van der Linde said on Thursday, according to EWN.
On Wednesday the 56-year-old TV presenter, businessman, and former lock forward was admitted to a hospital in Paarl, his birthplace, and transferred the same day to Cape Town.
Van der Linde said Wiese underwent a procedure to have an intravascular stent inserted into a narrowed vein.
“I spoke to Kobus this (Thursday) morning and he is okay‚” Van der Linde told the Netwerk24 website. “He is a big pal of mine. We have been friends since 1995. He is a strong man.”
Wiese played for South Africa 18 times (only being on the losing side twice) between 1993 and 1996, including the extra-time triumph over New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup final in Johannesburg.
In a 13-year provincial career, the 125-kilogram, 1.99-metre forward made 158 match appearances for Boland, Western Transvaal, Transvaal, and the Golden Lions.