Miss TSSD lands contract with top Jozi agency

GIYANI – THE newly-crowned Miss Tlou Segolela Soccer Development (TSSD) Tournament, Lerato Malatjie (18), has signed her first professional modelling contract with Johannesburg based K-Mile Models.

The contract is part of a package she received when she was crowned Miss TSSD 2014/15 in December at the annual soccer tournament which takes place in Moletjie Mabokelele. K-Mile models is a chic, sophisticated, slick and sassy professional modelling agency which works in the fashion, modelling and entertainment industry managing talents of models nationally and internationally.

Malatjie couldn’t hide her excitement about signing the contract and meeting her new modelling mentor and boss, who happens to be South African celebrity, Miriam Ngomane.

Malatjie, from Kremetart in Giyani, is a first year B.Sc mathematical science student at the University of Pretoria, and says she has always dreamt of becoming a professional model when she gets to university. The bubbly model also praised the Miss TSSD organisers for their role in affording young women and men in rural areas an opportunity to realise and follow their dreams.

The new contract with K-Mile Models means that she will have opportunities to do professional modelling work, including television and magazine advertisements. She says she is grateful the opportunity provided by TSSD by arrange for a modelling contract as part of the winners package came at the time when she was also stressing about getting herself an agency.

“The tittle (of Miss TSSD) has been a blessing. I have had an opportunity to do more entertainment interviews, meet people and allowed me to get a new mentor without going all out to search for one on my own. It can be a lot of stress to look for legitimate and professional modelling agency.”

But, Malatjie, says her journey to the big time was not been as glamorous as it appears as it involved a lot of charity work, and passion for the arts. As she explains that in 2014 “I was involved in a of charity work, especially helping organise local beauty pageant like Miss Giyani and this year I was very much involved with the organising of Miss Mopani 2015,” she said.