MODELS BATTLE FOR MISS SOLOMONS LIFESTYLE TITLE
A BEVY of 12 models will battle it out at the inaugural Miss Solomons Lifestyle Café pageant set for December 31.
The pageant, whose aim is to at promote African beauty in high density suburbs, is targeting models between the ages of 18 and 25. The winner will walk away US$500 richer. In an interview, the pageant’s spokesperson,
Alexio ‘Goodchild’ Gwenzi, said:
“As Solomons Lifestyle Cafe family, we want to bring awareness to the locations, that we have beautiful African sisters.
“We want to celebrate the uncelebrated class of women in our midst. That is why our criteria is different to the normal Miss Zimbabwe or Miss World contestants.
“This is not about the ability to model, but just having beauty with brains in the African perspective.
“People in these areas are our target and charity begins at home thus we thought of having this contest of Harare giants this year.”
Goodchild said this time around, the pageant is targeting people from Harare only.
“We want all people around Harare Metropolitan to be part of this event and also our people will have the opportunity to experience our hospitality.
“It’s also an outreach awareness exercise that is here for these communities to enjoy life together.
“We should celebrate life thus, so as management we thought this is one way to do it.
“In the end, we will have winners who will become our brand ambassadors for the next 12 months,” he added.
Every contestant will be awarded.
“The top three winners from each area will do the finals on the day of the competition and each top winner will be paid US$100.
“On the finals, the Queen gets US$500, First Princess, US$400 and Second Princess US$300.
Selection of the finalists began on December 24 in areas like Glen View, Budiriro, Waterfalls, Mufakose, Kambuzuma, Highfield, and Glen Norah.