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Miss Zim Trust tightens regulations

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THE Miss Zimbabwe Trust has incorporated a clause that allows them to take legal action against a reigning Miss World Zimbabwe queen in the event that she violated the code of conduct that governs the pageant, NewsDay has established.

THE Miss Zimbabwe Trust has incorporated a clause that allows them to take legal action against a reigning Miss World Zimbabwe queen in the event that she violated the code of conduct that governs the pageant, NewsDay has established.

BY WINSTONE ANTONIO

The trust has tightened the rules following nude picture scandals that saw former queens — Tabiso Phiri and Emily Katanga Kachote — dethroned during the course of their reigns.

Miss Zimbabwe Trust spokesperson Tendai Chirau yesterday said they wanted to protect the pageant’s brand by ensuring that beauty queens aspiring for the national crown would adhere to a strict code of conduct.

Anne Grace Mutambu Reigning Miss World Zimbabwe Anne Grace Mutambu.

The search for the new queen begins this Friday when the trust rolls out the scouting process in the country’s 10 provinces.

“As a way of maintaining our standards and getting rid of those models who would behave in a way that can tarnish the image of the trust and the pageant as a whole, we have added a clause that will allow us to sue the one found on the wrong side of the rules and regulations of the trust,” Chirau said.

Chirau emphasised that their criteria and requirements when conducting the auditions conform to the standards prescribed by the Miss World Pageant of which the trust is a member.

He said their scouting team would be conducting the auditions in the different provinces in line with their selection criteria. He said interested models should be aged between 18 and 26 and should be at least 1, 71 metres tall. The beauty queens should also be slim, single and never been married or given birth as well as able to communicate in English.

Just like locals, Zimbabweans in the Diaspora can also participate by filling in a form on the Trust’s website www.misszimbabwe.org. An in-depth background check will be conducted on all aspiring queens meeting the prescribed criteria.

The aspiring queens that would have been selected will be required to join a boot camp from March 15 as Miss World Zimbabwe delegates for selection as semi-finalists who will then compete for the grand finale.

He said the grand finale of the national pageant will be held under the theme Celebrating the life of Kiki Divaris, on April 16 at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course.

A programme from Miss Zimbabwe Trust indicates that from Friday to Sunday the scouting team will be at Rainbow Hotel in Bulawayo, while the Harare auditions will be held in the capital on February 18 to February 20 at the trust’s head office, number 14 Boundary Road, Highlands and the second and final phase of the auditions will be on February 25 and 27 again at the trust’s head office in Harare.

The boot camp will then commence on March 15 at Rainbow Towers in Harare with the joint sashing ceremony and fashion show in honour of Divaris to be held on April 1 at the trust’s head office.

From the second to the 15th of April, it will be the finalists’ boot camp at Rainbow Towers in the capital while on April 14, it will be the full dress rehearsal at Borrowdale Brooke Golf Course, Harare.