Brenda: The last pics
2004-05-11 17:10
Cape Town - A video showing Brenda Fassie predicting her own death will be shown on SABC2 on Tuesday evening at 21:00.
News24 has obtained exclusive pictures of the reality show episode showing Fassie bearing her soul.
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?"
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."
Fassie, South Africa's "queen of pop" and "Madonna of the townships", died on Sunday evening after suffering an asthma attack which left her in a coma for more than two weeks.
Fassie was a daring and brash singer known as much for her energetic onstage performances as for her colourful life away from the microphone.
But as much as her voice, described as "power-packed, versatile and gutsy" did for her singing career, so did the controversy surrounding her antics on and off the stage.
"I'm a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark," she once said.
Despite her bad-girl image and sometimes eye-popping behaviour, Fassie's popularity remained cemented firmly within South African pop culture.
Pictures courtesy of Devereux Harris Productions