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“I had the honour to represent our country” – Basetsaa Khumalo reflects on her Miss World journey 30 years ago.
Basetsana Kumalo has looked back at her Miss World experience from thirty years ago.
At the age of sixteen, she won the titles of Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa in 1990, marking the start of her career. In 1994, she won the title of Miss South Africa and went on to become the first runner-up in Miss World.
She began hosting the lifestyle TV show Top Billing while she was still Miss South Africa. Kumalo and Patience Stevens, the show’s producer, partnered. Kumalo started Tswelopele Productions with a fifty percent ownership. Impumelelo has recognized the business as one of the top 300 empowerment companies in South Africa.
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She took to Instagram to share a video showing herself participating in the Miss World pageant, an experience she said happened at ” a critical time in our history”
“Thirty years ago I had the honour to represent our country on the Miss World stage, I didn’t walk alone on that stage, I was carried by every South African and as a country we came 2nd in the pageant. It was a critical time in our history, 1994, the dawn of a new democracy, the rainbow nation and our first black President, Tata Nelson Mandela became our leader.”
“Fast forward 30 years later, I look back upon that time and remain in awe and gratitude of what that platform did for me. It catapulted me to find my voice, chart my own cause, write my own script and fulfill my divinely ordained destiny. As I look towards to my 50th birthday, I am thankful for the road before and I look forward to the road ahead and what it has in store for me. So grateful for the love that has been extended to me over the years. I don’t take it for granted and count it all joy,” she wrote.
Steve Jobs once said, “You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So, you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” Indeed the dots have connected in my life.”
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