The Miss South Africa 2022 reside pageant has been nominated for a South African Movie & Tv Award (SAFTA) forward of this week’s reside finale on Sunday, 13 August.
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MISS SOUTH AFRICA 2022 GETS SAFTA NOD
“We’re ecstatic on the nod and recognition for our onerous work and being a female-led staff makes this even sweeter. It actually boils right down to being a collaborative effort of many ladies, supported by the distinctive anonymous faces and minds that work unrecognised behind the scenes,” explains Relebogile Mabotja, Black Swan Media government producer and producer.
Final 12 months – for the primary time in its illustrious historical past – an all-female staff organised, produced and directed the reside Miss SA pageant and oversaw its debut offshoot actuality tv collection Crown Chasers.
That is significantly pertinent contemplating the ethos of the Miss SA pageant and that the crowning takes place in Girls’s Month in August.
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MEET THE WOMEN BEHIND THE PAGEANT AND ITS TV SERIES
On the helm of the Miss South Africa Organisation is CEO, Stephanie Weil. The manufacturing employees – on the helm once more this 12 months for Sunday’s reside pageant – had been Black Swan Media and their all-female-led artistic staff because the producers and administrators. This contains Mabotja, the reside Miss South Africa 2022 and 2023 technical director Nadia White and inventive director Azania Muendane.
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The Miss SA staff contains Stephanie Weil, COO Schané Fouché, Miss South Africa supervisor, Nhlanhla Shezi, head of authorized Lisa Shein, PR specialist Janine Greenleaf Walker, author Charmain Naidoo and social media specialists Kopano Tsengiwe and Thato Mphosi.
“What an honour to be nominated for such a prestigious award – it’s a great recognition of all of the onerous work the staff has put in. We look ahead to displaying Miss South Africa followers and supporters what now we have deliberate this weekend. Don’t miss it!” says Weil.
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2023 PAGEANT
The 2023 Miss South Africa pageant takes place on Sunday at Solar Worldwide’s flagship venue, the SunBet Enviornment at Time Sq., Pretoria, and guarantees to be a spectacular and entertainment-packed present. Miss South Africa 2023 will probably be broadcast reside on SABC 3 from 18:30 and streamed reside for a world viewers on the Miss SA app.
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