Canoeist drowns

17 February 2009 - 02:00
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Canoeing South Africa has confirmed the death of canoeist Laetitia Scheepers, who drowned after her canoe overturned on the Elands River in Mpumalanga on Saturday.

Canoeing South Africa has confirmed the death of canoeist Laetitia Scheepers, who drowned after her canoe overturned on the Elands River in Mpumalanga on Saturday.

Thirty-year-old Scheepers was rowing with a number of fellow Lowveld Canoe Club members who battled in vain to save her. - Sowetan