Miss Bulawayo 2008 - An insult to the city of kings and queens
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The event that rocked Bulawayo the Friday of 26 October 2008 at a local Hotel was the one of the properly organized events in the city of Queens and Kings. I would like to thank Sarah Mpofu and her organizing team for making sure that an event of that magnitude sailed through to search for a beauty Queen.
However I would like to attack the process models go through for them to enter the pageant and be part of a competition that is going to bring a queen that would represent at national and world level. I believe that the current Miss Bulawayo, Sharon Dube is a disgrace and a non-starter, she doesn’t deserve that title and it should be taken off her before we take to the streets.
We cannot have brainless ambassadors of questionable morals taking the crown. We the people of Bulawayo deserve better and what happened on that Friday at the Miss Bulawayo event was a huge mistake that should be corrected in order to set a standard for future models, models should know how to behave if they want to be national ambassadors and that is what Sharon Dube does not have, she has been in the papers for all the wrong reasons pertaining to unruly behaviors, drunkardness and public fighting at local nightclubs, I am sure these unfortunate incidents that get to the papers are just little bits of what happens behind the scenes. Models should be people who have the community and the nation at heart, these are people who inspire our young children at home and therefore their house should be in order before they conquer the world.
We have had models like Nomakhosazana Ncube who have been truly talented both on the ramp and educated, by the way education is not the diplomas and degrees that we have but the way we live and interact with the people around us, to me that education at its highest level.
The organizers failed to come up with a good team of proper talented models and Sarah Mpofu has just dug herself a pit that could cost her in the future- unless she was following in the tracks of the Mazibuko project. We had ministers present on that day and respectable businessman and women, for them to attend and grace a function that will produce the worst of all from Bulawayo is what we abhor and would like to correct.
I would like to end by saying that the vetting process should not just be the height and weight of models but should dig dipper into the personal lives and make sure that what we are going to present will be one of the best from our region and the country as a whole.
This pageant should be give to those who can run it smoothly and there is always room for new people and new ideas. If Sarah is tired, she should pave way or just put her methodologies in order.
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“We cannot have brainless ambassadors of questionable morals taking the crown”. My friend, how many intelligent girls of virtue are in to Beauty Pageants? It’s like complaining about Arnold Swarzenegger winning a contest for glorifying violence.
What you should be questioning is why the hell we should be expected to look upon these vapid fillies as “ambassadors”. If an ambassador for this country should be judged on their physical appearance, ability to go through paces and perform other tricks, then a well-trained dog would be as suitable for the role.
@Masimba: You ignoramus. I’ll have you know that most girls in modelling are as straight forward asany other women out there. If you have the looks and the brains to go with it- use them! Look at what Tyra Banks, Iman and countless others have done with her combination and beauty and brains.
Don’t paint all girls in modelling with the same dirty brush of your imagination.
There is power in beauty. There is AWESOME power in beauty WITH brains. Live with it.
I could let this descend in to one of those slinging matches. However, my point has been made by your reference to prime examples of vapidity rebranded as beauty. These two have no more beauty and brains than they have any actual use and purpose. You only have to look at their personal lives.
You talk of them as having “done” something with their “beauty and brains”. Who did anything, the men who groomed them the same way a farmer chooses from his cattle herd the best cattle for a show? Who decides that these women are “beautiful”? Do they have a say in the matter, any more than livestock can choose to be “premier grade”?
Who’s the ignoramus then?
Masimba you are no ignoramus, you are right. Most of these women we call beautiful are not beautiful at all. They are just attractive and good-looking but not beautiful. Beauty should be both intrinsic and extrinsic. Most models I personally know are not straight, am yet to personall meet the straight ones. They dont represent the values embodied but Zimbabwean and African values yet they claim to be ambasadors of Zim and Africa. If anything they mirror western culture and values.
Ha ha ha Virtugal!! Guys lets not be sanctimonious about this. As a red blooded male I for one enjoy watching these beauty contests, so no thank you I will not accept a ‘well trained’ dog as a substitute.
Now Solomon, if you any where near as wise as your Biblical namesake please explain to me what you mean when you say “they don’t represent the values” of Zimbabweans and Africans……eh the last time I checked nobody seemed to know just what those values are, unless if you agree with one of those senile and eccentric gurus that appear on the ‘Haro Kora’ discussions on DeadBC.
I would not say that being sanctimonious has anything to do with the point I am making. Would you accept your daughter, mother or sister taking part in these?
Do you understand what it means to be a “red-blooded male”? Are you aware that the attitude of a “red-blooded male” is a recent invention, established through the work of a man called Kinsey. Another time, I will tell you about Kinsey. But if you are a “red-blooded male”, then I must inform you that you are a victim of Mind-Control.
Romans chapter 1 explains what the next stage of developement is in the society that is being shaped by such values, where the natural use of the woman as the Bible puts it, is abandoned. In other words, you are a few degrees from homo.
Zimbabwean values, sir, are what we call Unhu/Ubuntu. The fact that ZBC does little to enlighten people like you on Zimbabwean values does not mean they exist.