Lize (Sarita) Heerman, 4820, Durban

Lize Heerman (pronounced Lizay and said in a Sandton kugel accent) was there with her mother. She has cutesy little sibilant “esses” and a nasal twang straight out of Durban's Sandton equivalent. When the publicity people asked her what made her interesting, she couldn’t muster up anything and immediately looked for her mother… “Mum, mum, mum! What makes me interesting?”

Lize has a pretty decent singing voice, but when talking it sounds like she tries to be more feminine than a ceramic swan stuffed with potpourri. Her real name is not Lize, it’s actually Sarita – you can add her mother as a friend on the Idols forums, who's name is also Sarita. The mother's username is Saritah. Here she commented on Lize's photo. Visit http://www.mnet.co.za/Idols/Gallery/ and then click on the “Dope Durban Auditions” category and then you can view the following images there:



Here is my (badly) photoshopped version, so you can see what she had to say about her photo:



(PS. No, Randall, it’s not gardenia in her hair… it’s called a frangipani)