Tharina Botes, 21, is a first-year B Comm marketing and business degree student at Damelin and a part-time model.
But now she can add Miss SA 2018 qualifier to her impressive CV.
Tharina is also a former learner from Monument High School and has done numerous modelling shoots since matriculating in 2015. She also follows in the footsteps of another former Monnas beauty, Shelbe Pretorius, who was a Top 12 finalist in last year’s pageant.
Fourteen entrants – who beat out more than 330 hopefuls – have been named as regional qualifiers at the final Miss South Africa 2018 regional auditions which took place at Carnival City Casino Sun Park in Brakpan recently. Two hail from the Free State, another two from KZN and one each from the Western Cape, Limpopo and Eastern Cape, with the remaining seven from Gauteng.
These regional qualifiers – along with the 14 others chosen during the nationwide Miss South Africa roadshow – now make the Top 28 who stand a chance to make it to the Top 12 which will be announced on 3 May.
The judges were Liesl Laurie (radio personality and Miss South Africa 2015), Bokang Montjane (Miss South Africa 2010), radio presenter and TV personality Anele Mdoda, Suzette van der Merwe (Miss South Africa 1990 and Cell C’s representative at the Miss South Africa Organisation) and Gareth Flusk (Sun International and the Miss SA Organisation).
Miss South Africa 2018 will be crowned on 27 May at the pageant’s diamond jubilee to be held at Sun International’s new flagship Time Square Sun Arena in Pretoria. The winner will take the crown and more than R2 million in prizes.
The News wishes Tharina all the luck in her Miss SA journey.
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