Fake Miss Teen delays pageant entries
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
± & -2<%(// & MBABANE – In late August 2022 ENCAC and the pageants association discovered that there were imposters inviting teens to enter their pageant, which has delayed the actual event.
It’s been nearly over two months since pageant season took off but there has always been a dark cloud lingering of fraudulent organisers, who were and are still defiant over national pageants rules.
When reached for comment Catrien Potgieter, President of Pageants Eswatini, elaborated on the matter. ³As Pageants Eswatini we do encourage that people register their business idea with us, especially because these pageants touch on the girl child and their safety,´ she said.
The Eswatini National Council of Arts and Culture ENCAC along with the National Pageants Association in the kingdom highlighted that their greatest concern was the safety of the teen girls.
As a result the official national pageant hasn’t received any entries so far, which is shocking for the organisers.
Re-opened
In previous years when the pageant was running, they would at least accumulate over 30 entries within weeks of announcing that the pageant had re-opened.
Entry lines for the competition were scheduled to close on September 30 this year, and the final
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