Berita brings Steve Biko back to life in video

upcoming musician to get onto her locally designed De’ Leulz 10cm-high platform shoes and matching outfit and sing her hit song, “Thandolwethu”.
Silent crowds lined the pavements as the Zimbabwean-born Gugulethu Khumalo (21), stood with her acoustic guitar and shimmering hairdo and sang to her backing track about a man who was to be her true love, but turned out to be a cheating player.
Luyolo Beku, of the East London-based company YM Marketing, which is managing Berita, said the singer and four crew members were recovering from rolling their car between Kroonstad and Bloemfontein in the early hours of the morning two weeks ago. They had been exhausted by a non-stop marketing tour.
Beku’s business partner, Thandie Mapeyi More, was at home in Amalinda in a back brace. Beku thanked mayor Ncitha saying: “The mayor made it happen. We had been knocking on doors.” Berita took time off from filming to tell the Dispatch that her back had been sore shortly before the shoot started. “But I’m feeling good now. I’ve forgotten all about it. I’m just focusing,” she said.
Meanwhile, the song and her CD, “Conquering Spirit”, was released in a major music chain store recently and all 1 000 copies sold out within two days, Beku said.
He said her afro-soul style had relevance to a national audience, but they were marketing the starlet as a provincial stayer.
“We (Eastern Cape) have lost too many singers. She is here to stay.”
WSU second-year fashion design student Zandi-Halley Goniwe, who was in the crowd, said Berita’s outfit — a charcoal tulle skirt and colourful, high-waisted, strapless top made from buttons and with a sweetheart neckline — was beautiful.
Fashion designer Tando Nogaga (28), who has two branches of De’ Leulz, one in Mthatha and one in East London, said she designed the cocktail dress to resemble the “colours of summer and South Africa’s heritage”.
Stylist Afika Mbandazayo, who did Berita’s hairdo, said it took five hours to get the copper Afro-centric mohawk do just right. — dispatch.co.za