ANNIE-GRACE Mutambu (19) will today be crowned Miss World Zimbabwe 2015 following the unceremonious dethroning of Emily Tatanga Kachote (25) after she was caught up in a nude pictures scandal about two months ago.
BY WINSTONE ANTONIO
Chengetai Marcia Kanonhuwa (18), who was the second princess, will be crowned as the first princes while Vanessa Mutemasango (20), who was capped Miss Personality after a public vote, will be upgraded to second princes.
Mutambu was, until now, the first princess after she was voted second best at the pageant’s grand finale held at Mermaids Pool in Shamva on April 25.
Miss Zimbabwe Trust spokesperson Tendai Chirau yesterday confirmed that Mutambu will take over the throne today.
The ceremony will be held at the Trust’s offices in Highlands, Harare.
Kachote has, however, vowed to fight for the title as she is alleged to have already started exploring the legal route challenging her dethronement.
“No matter how hard you try to remove me from the throne by blackmailing me with the so-called nude pictures, you won’t win because I am here to stay and I will remain Miss Zimbabwe. Hopefully, I will become Miss World soon. #Game_Of_Throne,” she wrote on her Facebook, wall.
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Chirau however, said Kachote was free to proceed with a legal challenge.
In a recent interview with this publication, Chirau said from their investigations they discovered that pictures that circulated on various social media platforms were not Kachote’s, but they dethroned her as she confessed that she once posed nude thereby violating Regulation 5 governing the pageant.
In what appears to be the new template for the Miss World Zimbabwe pageant, Kachote is the second model to be dethroned after last year’s winner Thabiso Phiri was also deposed by the Miss Zimbabwe Trust after a similar scandal.
