Two mammothly sad pieces of news for our sport within 12 hours of each other.

Paddling legend, Mark Perrow, was flying his light plane in the Umkomaas valley yesterday morning at around 11 o'clock when it collided into a cliff and burst into flames.

His body was recovered at around 6 o'clock on Sunday evening.

Also on Sunday evening, President Ramaphosa put a lid on the number of people who are allowed to attend the same gathering.

This decision ostensibly means the cancellation of all canoeing events where more than 100 people will be gathered in the same place at the same time.

Following the announcement of a national state of disaster by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Sunday evening, Canoeing South Africa has officially postponed all events on the national calendar until 14 April 2020 in the wake of the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

There is still time to get in those selection documents. We have received a lot and thank you for those! Those that haven't submitted you have until the following dates:

- 17 APRIL ICF OCEAN RACING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS
- 5 JUNE ICF CANOE MARATHON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

The documents are on the homepage of the CSA website.

PLEASE NOTE THE CSA CALENDAR HAS BEEN SUSPENDED UNTIL 14 APRIL