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Thabo Mothibi, Managing Editor, thabo@ncnn.live
Two beauties Sinesipho Maboza and Refemetswe Mokgele are to represent the Northern Cape in the finals of one of South Africa’s most coveted beauty pageant titles, Miss Mamelodi Sundowns, which is set to be held early next year.
In vying to be crowned Miss Mamelodi Sundowns 2018/2019, Maboza and Mokgele who have already scooped R60 000 apiece on the 16th October as provincial princesses, will stand a chance of bagging R2 million in prize money. One of the two might also beat 17 others to driving home in a brand new car.
The Premier Soccer League team’s beauty pageant is rated as one of South Africa’s most prestigious owing to its lucrative prize-money and for the glitz and glamour associated with it. The judges are usually selected from South African A-List celebrities, whilst the contestants usually take to the ramp in glitzy attire designed by some of the country’s most renowned fashion designers.
In being a Mamelodi Sundowns brand ambassador, Sinesipho Maboza who is in the second year of her social work bachelor degree at the Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, is likely to take to her provincial charity work with aplomb.
“I am involved in a feeding scheme at church and luckily enough my studies helps with doing practicals at communities every Wednesday. I have already started doing newspaper interviews and I have a radio interview this Friday. I also have a few meetings lined-up when am back in the Northern Cape with some associations.
“I am very excited about my future as Miss Northern Cape and having to represent the province I was born in at the national finals. Being Miss Mamelodi Sundowns has been one of my dreams and I am proud to say I’ve achieved it at the age of 19.”
When asked what she was to do with the acquired R60 000 as a provincial winner, Maboza quipped in a text message; “with the prize money I intend on investing a big share of it,” giving a smiling emoji to end her response.
The 23 year old Refemetswe Mokgele from Bloemfontein who is also in her second year of study in pursuing her LLB Law also gave her take on having won: “Firstly I feel honoured to have been chosen out of many wonderful ladies to represent the Northern Cape province.
“The fact that the judges chose me just goes to show the trust they have in me and how much they believe in me, not only as a person but as one of the ambassador of their brand. I am also very much excited as not a lot happens in the Northern Cape so I have to use that to my advantage. I plan on making a lot of noise for this province.”
Mamelodi Sundowns is owned by South Africa’s wealthy mining magnate Patrice Motsepe.
By Thabo Mothibi
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Thabo Mothibi is a former broadcast journalist (TV and Radio) – with specialist reporting experience; SABC Political/Parliamentary and TRC Teams over a period of five years (1995 to 2000).
One key foreign assignment - is the 11-nation African Connection Rally – overland journey from Africa’s northern-most pole in the coastal Tunisian city of Bizerte to the southern-most pole in South Africa’s Cape Agulhas. From the journalistic years, Thabo then delved into Government media liaison and serving two former Ministers and three MECs. He became the Northern Cape Provincial Government’s first department based Communications Director at Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development - 2008-2010 – where he also served as Head of Ministry from 2003 – 2008.
As a former anti-apartheid activist, his political background and professional training aided him in spearheading the Northern Cape ANC’s 2004 National Elections media and publicity campaign and that of the 2006 Local Government Elections.
Whilst based in Waterkloof in Pretoria -2010 to end 2011, he consulted for Manstrat Agricultural Intelligence, then returned to the Northern Cape in 2012 to date, to consult independently and pursue other entrepreneurial interests in media and communications through KwaVuko Communications and Marketing.
Thabo Mothibi obtained his NQF7 through Wits University’s Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM) in Johannesburg, a Unilever Mandela Rhodes Academy for Marketing and Communications Academy (UMRA). The goal of the NQF7 programme was to educate and train public and private sector professional communicators and marketers in government communications..
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