Miss Grand Zimbabwe

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Miss Grand Zimbabwe
Formation2013
Type Beauty pageant
Headquarters Bulawayo
Location
Membership
Miss Grand International
Official language
English
National director
Chris Vukani Mhlanga

Miss Grand Zimbabwe was a Zimbabwean female national beauty pageant founded in 2013 by former Miss Zimbabwe Samantha Tshuma. [1] [2] [3] The contest's winners represent the country at the Miss Grand International pageant. [1] [2] [3] In 2014, Tshuma relinquished her post as director for her partner, Chris Vukani Mhlanga. [4] [5] After two consecutive years of scandal, the partnership with Miss Grand International was terminated the following year and the license was later purchased by Culvin Mavunga in 2016 but no representative was sent that year. [6]

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Zimbabwe only participated in the Miss Grand International pageant in 2013 and 2014, [7] [8] one of them, Samantha Thsuma Miss Grand Zimbabwe 2013, was named the final-20. [7] After that, another national pageant winner, Miss Zimbabwe Grand, was expected to participate but withdrew. [9] [10]

Background

History

In addition to Thailand, Zimbabwe is one of the other countries that separately held its Miss Grand national contest to select the representative for Miss Grand International in 2013. This inaugural edition of Miss Grand Zimbabwe was organized at the Gardens Restaurant in the city of Bulawayo under the direction of former Miss Zimbabwe 2010, Samantha Tshuma, and a 22-years-old model representing Bulawayo, Fungai Mawada, was announced the winner at a contest held on July 13, outclassing 15 other finalists. [1] [2] [3]

Nevertheless, Mawada was later disqualified on September 2 by the director Samantha Tshuma, who nominated herself as the country representative at such an international contest and additionally stated that all 16 participating models were not suitable for the international competition, [1] [2] causing her to receive negative opinions from several modeling agencies. [1] Tshuma was placed as the Top 20 finalist in the swimsuit competition at the Miss Grand International 2013 pageant, which was held in Thailand on November 19. [4]

In the following year, the Miss Grand Zimbabwe organization was also embroiled in a similar scandal when the new franchise holder, Chris Vukani Mhlanga, who was the partner of a former 2013 national licensee, unveiled a new country representative, Lillie Chopamba, to replace Marble Nyathi, one of the finalists who had been nominated from Bulawayo to represent the country at the Miss Grand International 2014 in Bangkok. [4] [5] [11] Mhlanga claimed Nyathi's body was not good enough for the international pageant; however, Nyathi argued that she was removed because she refused Mhlanga's love proposal as well as some financial issues between her and the organizer. [4] [5] [12] [13]

Lillie Chopamba was the last Zimbabwe candidate at Miss Grand International, although the other national pageant with a similar name, Miss Zimbabwe Grand, has been held annually since 2019 to determine the winners for several international platforms but has no affiliation with Miss Grand International. [14] [15]

Edition

Miss Grand Zimbabwe was held as a stand-alone pageant only once in 2013, as detailed below.

YearEditionDateFinal venueEntrantsResultRef.
Winner1st runner-up2nd runner-up
2013 1stJuly 13Gardens Restaurant, Bulawayo 16Fungai Mawada
(Bulawayo)		Nothando Ncube
(Matabeleland South)		Grace Ncube
(Matabeleland North)		 [3] [16]

International competition

The following is a list of Zimbabwe representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

YearRepresentativeOriginal national titleInternational resultNational director
PlacementOther awards
2013Fungai Mawada [3] Miss Grand Zimbabwe 2013 [3] Dethroned [1] [2] Samantha Thsuma [1] [2]
Samantha Thsuma [1] [2] Miss Zimbabwe 2010 [1] [2] Top 20 [7] —
2014Marble Nyathi [4] [5] —Dethroned [4] [5] Chris Vukani Mhlanga [4] [5]
Lillie Chopamba [4] [5] —Unplaced [8] —
2016Dion Cooper [6] Miss Grand Zimbabwe 2016 [6] Dethroned [6] Culvin Mavunga [6]
2020Kimberly Mayoyo [10] Miss Zimbabwe Grand 2020 [10] The organizer did not hold the license of Miss Grand International for Zimbabwe.
2022Scholastica Makoni [9] Miss Zimbabwe Grand 2021 [9]
Color keys for the Placements at Miss Grand International
  Declared as the winner
  Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)
  Ended as a finalist (Top 10)
  Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)

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