Weekend Special

If anything, and her being a young person at the time, being a teenager slash young adult, we need to understand in the 80s, a big part of the 80s was that, remember in the 60s when she was born, I spoke about passive resistance.

So we had passive and peaceful resistance against apartheid from the black population.

But from the late 70s into the 80s, when Brenda rises, we had something called active resistance.

This was an era where there was a call to say to black people, make the country ungovernable.

because the circumstances and the conditions that were created by the apartheid regime were so dire.

And that shows you that there was a perception that she didn't have a real impact, that she... you know, was formative.

But on the contrary, like Shadow Twala says, that women wanted to be like her, right? I wasn't born then at the time, but I mean, I'm here now and I can tell you that I also want to be like her.

So I suppose the perception that people would have had of her, especially people that shared the same music industry as her, would have been polarised.