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Izak van der Westhuizen had to experience such a vortex of off-field drama when was appointed one of Hawies Fourie's assistants at the Cheetahs in December 2020 that 2024's early challenge of stepping up as the latter's successor, with a European Challenge Cup play-off, appears a stroll in a sunny field.
That period - against the backdrop of a Covid-riddled, behind-closed-doors domestic programme that already saw the Free Staters miss out on potential log points when a match against the Lions at Ellis Park was cancelled at the 11th hour - was indisputably the darkest in the union's near 130-year history.
