Ndavi Nokeri was crowned Miss SA 2022. Images: Supplied
Mirror, mirror on the wall…Miss SA 2023 entries open on Monday
Entries for Miss SA 2023 open next week with several exciting new additions to this year’s competition in the pipeline.
Ndavi Nokeri was crowned Miss SA 2022. Images: Supplied
As from Monday 13 March, the search for the “fairest of them all” will begin in all earnest as entries for Miss South Africa 2023 open. The worthy winner will follow in the footsteps of reigning queen Ndavi Nokeri who represented our beautiful country at the Miss Universe pageant.
An announcement of several new additions to this year’s competition will accompany the official opening of entries at 15:00.
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‘Pageant disruptors’: Miss SA Organisation hints at new additions
“We have become known on the global scene as ‘pageant disruptors’. We constantly strive to keep the competition relevant and fresh and we believe our fans are going to be delighted and excited with what we’ve come up this year,” said Miss South Africa Organisation CEO Stephanie Weil.
“While we are ensuring the Miss South Africa campaign loses none of the attributes fans and followers have come to love, we’ve also challenged ourselves to think bigger and better to make certain the Miss South Africa competition grows and evolves and retains relevance and interest in an ever-changing world.
“I like to think of it as ‘pageantry revolutionised’,” Weil added.
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Rule change already in place
In 2022, IOL reported that the Miss South Africa Organisation would also be implementing the Miss Universe pageant’s rule change to allow mothers and married women to compete in the pageant.
What if Miss SA pageant gets reality series makeover?
One can’t help but wonder whether the organisation — in its effort to keep the competition “relevant and fresh” — might be keen on Miss Universe Organisation owner and Thai media tycoon Anne Jakapong’s idea of turning the pageant into a reality series.
TIME reported that Jakapong is envisioning the Miss Universe reality series as a “mash-up” of Project Runway and American Idol and hopes to boost the pageant’s rapid ratings decline over the past five years
The 13 episodes will follow the contestants in the lead-up to the competition, through the actual pageant, and then track the triumphs of the winner and the pressures she faces as she serves her term.
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SA ranked in top 10 of most beautiful people in the world
In 2021, a study that looked at the birthplaces of more than 500 international beauty pageant winners, was conducted by Money UK to identify where the most beautiful winners in the world are from.
“When ranking the countries, the United States came in first place followed by Venezuela, Brazil, the United Kingdom, the Philipines, Australia, Colombia, Thailand, South Africa and Spain,” the study concluded.
According to East Coast Radio, the study was based on the past winners of the beauty pageant world.
And the proof is in the pageant…
Three Miss South Africas, namely Rolene Strauss, Anneline Kriel and Penelope Coelen, have won Miss World titles in 2014, 1974 and 1958 respectively.
Three women from South Africa have won the title of Miss Universe – Margaret Gardiner in 1978, Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters in 2017 and Zozibini Tunzi in 2019.
