Former Bok coach Peter de Villiers is grieving again after his beloved wife drowned in a friend’s pool two years after their daughter's death

14 Apr 2022

Carla Coetzee

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Theresa de Villiers, wife of the former Springbok coach, died earlier this month. (PHOTO: Corrie Hansen)

It was a devastating blow for the former Springbok rugby coach.

He and his wife of 45 years had endured so much – the death of two children shortly after birth and then the tragic loss of a beloved daughter to cancer at the age of 28.

Now Peter de Villiers is without the woman who’s been by his side throughout all the trials and tribulations of life.

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