Watts has left the city
Being in business for 21 years, Susca Watts has finally decided to settle down and leave most of her business in the hands of her capable managers. "I am doing it for love," she said.
The well-known Pretorian businesswoman and former queen bee of beauty pageants, Susca Watts, has left the city for the greener pastures of love in Middelburg in Mpumalanga.
Her Susca Watts Beauty Academy, which has celebrated its 21st birthday on 1 January, has officially closed its doors for full-time students in August last year already and would in the future only cater for part-time students.
She has also renamed her academy – now officially known as The Susca Watts Beauty and Business Academy.
“I am not scaling down, nor am I going to retire,” she said, crushing rumours that she has left the shark toothed business world to become a full-time wife.
Watts, who got engaged to businessman and farmer Frik le Roux in December, said the dire state of the economy had forced her to present shorter courses. “I have decided to change my courses to skills courses focusing on waxing, massaging, business management and make-up. Students do not want to do full-time courses in beauty anymore. They prefer shorter courses specialising in only one aspect of the beauty industry.”
Watts has re-opened her academy in a posh manor in Murrayfield in the east of Pretoria around four years ago, also boasting an elite spa were her students had done their practical training.
“I have closed the spa and I am only renting a classroom for the short courses,” she said.
Her alternative training methods have opened new doors (to especially deaf beauticians) and one would find her past students owning their own beauty parlours throughout the country or working at top-notch spas.
Watts previously owned the Mr and Mrs SA titles. She sold the titles a couple of years back, stating she could not bear to judge people on looks anymore. “That part of my life is over. God give each of us our own crown.”
Watts, who has been known as a hard-bargained businesswoman, said although she is going to open satellite campuses in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and in the Northern Cape, she strategically decided to prioritise her life and spend more time with her husband-to-be.
Watts, who had been married twice, said looking back with hindsight she realised she had neglected her two previous husbands as a result of her heavy workload and strong business ethics. “In the past I would have done everything myself. Now I have realised that my managers could look after my business just as well. I am going to spend more quality time with my family.”
The couple are planning to get wed in May.
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