The winner of the Miss Rural Zimbabwe beauty contest has lost her crown because she sometimes lives in town. Liweline Mukana, 16, stays with her grandmother in a northern rural village near Kariba town, but during the week remains in Kariba to go to school. The judges disqualified her and crowned Abigail Mabhoni, 18, from central Mugabe village instead. The beauty contest has also caused offence in Zimbabwe as some of the girls modelled bare-breasted."The contest was strictly for rural beauties," said Sipho Mazibuko, the beauty contest organiser.
"Liweline shouldn't have been allowed to compete in her provincial competition."
Meanwhile, the show shocked many people in urban areas who watched the weekend final on television because some the 27 finalists were bare-breasted. According to the BBC's Steve Vickers in Harare, it is culturally acceptable for an unmarried woman to expose her breasts in the south-west of Zimbabwe.
The contestants used the pageant to highlight the problems that rural girls face, such as HIV/Aids, hunger and lack of education opportunities.
(Liweline is on the left. The runner up is on the right. I like her headress, that would have been enough for me to vote for her! Can't beat a good hat, that's San Nakji's motto!)
San Nakji for President!
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