Pietermaritzburg — With the region still in the talons of a brutal two-year drought, the 2017 FNB Dusi Canoe Marathon, which gets under way at Camps Drift on Thursday, will echo the races of old as paddlers face a number of additional obstacles on their three-day journey from Pietermaritzburg to Durban. The FNB Dusi has always revolved around the participants taking on the prevailing conditions and with a highly charged and competitive field assembled for the race, the race looks set to reward one of the trio of stars that best adapts to the "old-school" Dusi. The race promises to test every aspect of the paddlers’ Dusi armoury, from the usual portaging skills and technical river tests to the additional curveball of an explosive growth of hyacinth. The prize money in the events building up to the Dusi has been shared among three paddlers — arguably what the podium is going to look like at the end of the three days. Euro Steel/Red Bull’s Sbonelo Khwela won the Umpetha Challenge and t...
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