Miss South Africa
Zozibini Tunzi is the new Miss Universe.
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| Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi. Picture: Instagram |
Tunzi was crowned by Miss Universe 2018 Catriona
Gray at the 68th edition of the pageant held in Atlanta on December 9, Monday.
Miss
Puerto Rico Madison Anderson is first runner-up followed by Miss Mexico Sofia
Aragon as second runner-up.
During their
Final Word, all three women were asked the same question which was, “What is
the most important thing we should be teaching young girls today?”
Her winning
answer was:
The
most important thing we should be teaching young girls today is leadership.
It’s something that has been lacking in young girls and women for a very long
time, not because we don’t want to but because of what society has labeled
women to be. I think we are the most powerful beings in the world and that we
should be given every opportunity and that’s what we should be teaching these
young girls to take up space. There is nothing more important than to take up
space in the society.
Before the
announcement of winners, all three of them were given a chance to grace the
stage and say their final speech.
Zozibini said, “I
grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my
kind of hair is never considered to be beautiful and I think that it is time
that stops. I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to
see their faces reflected in mine.”
Philippine bet
Gazini Ganados was one of the Top 20.
Zozibini is the
third beauty queen from South Africa to win Miss Universe after Margaret Gardiner (1978) and Demi-Leigh Nel Peters (2017).
