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Fassie: 'I'm going to die'
10/05/2004 22:04 - (SA)
Jaco Nel , Beeld
Pretoria - "I'm going to die."
With these words Brenda Fassie, 39, predicted her own death just five weeks ago during the preview of a reality series about her life.
She died on Sunday after a suspected asthma attack left her in a coma for more than a week.
Chris Torline from Devereux Harris Productions in Melville said they were planning to produce a reality programme about Fassie. Fassie asked for a camera to be left with her.
"The idea would have been something like The Osbournes, episode by episode," Torline said on Monday.
Pam Devereux, Fassie's friend for the past 20 years, produced 17 of her music videos.
She said the singer fetched the camera to film a 10-minute proposal herself. This proposal would have been presented to SABC2.
The 10-minute fragment shows Fassie filming herself, with her dogs, in and around her house, without her false teeth and sitting in the bath yelling: "Will somebody bring me a beer?"
Tries to supress a throaty cough
At the beginning of the fragment Fassie says: "I'm tired. Not of the show I have just come from. I am tired. I want to go somewhere else."
Throughout the fragment it can be heard how she tries to supress a throaty cough.
"I cannot stop coughing" she says later, wide-eyed and in a sombre tone.
"I am scared. I just want to sleep. I am tired, and I am going to die. I wonder how death is."
Devereux said the programme wasn't a true documentary.
"She truly had something to say," she explained.
"None of us had any idea. She often said she was sick, but never told us how sick she really was".
Marthinus van Vuuren reports that Fassie's agent, Peter Snyman, said the programme provided "a deeper insight" into Fassie's life.
"She was tired and drained," Snyman said.
"Brenda definitely had a premonition that she was going to die."
That's how it is - filmed by Brenda Fassie - will be broadcast on SABC2 at 21:00 on Tuesday.
Sapa reports that Fassie will be buried in Cape Town on Sunday.
Lesie Sedibe of EMI Music said a funeral service would be held in Langa Stadium at 10:00 on Sunday. Chicco Twala, Fassie's manager, is also scouting out a suitable venue for a memorial service in Soweto.
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