IT’S a typical young kid’s picture and shows a stick-figure family smiling next to a swimming pool. But there’s another element to this seemingly happy scene: a red heart that seems to be floating above the happy family to a single cloud next to a big yellow sun.
The father figure is Erik Rautenbach (35) of Riebeeckstad in the Free State, who drowned in a freak accident at the Aldam holiday resort near Ventersburg recently. And the artist is six-year-old Zonike Rautenbach, who tried desperately to save her dad that day.
Erik drowned when he was sucked into the outlet of a powerful pump in a pool at the bottom of a water slide