If you are sexy, feisty, full of fun and absolutely adore the wildlife then this is one competition you HAVE to enter!

The search for Mej Kirkwood Wildsfees 2009 is on!

The event will be held on Saturday 27 June 2009 at 12pm on the Kirkwood Wildlife main stage at the festival in Kirkwood. This is a revamped event and will be much different from previous years, as this year we are looking for single, vibrant, fresh faced girls between the ages of 13 – 24 only!

Exciting prizes are awaiting the winners and their princesses, including the opportunity to meet up with a celebrity judge whom will form part of a panel of 5 high profile judges. Entry forms are available on the websites www.wildsfess.co.za and www.pizzazzmodels.co.za
or from pageant organizer Lisa Perino from Pizzazz Finishing School & Modelling Academy on 082 713 3024 or e-mail her on lisa@501.co.za.

Entries close 12 June 2009 at 12 noon.

To enter, entrants must be single, aged between 13 – 17 & 18 – 24. The decision of the
organizers and judges are final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

Ten finalists per age group will be selected from the photographs entered to take part in the final event at the Kirkwood Wildlife Festival on 27 June 2009 at 12pm.

Hand deliver, during office hours your entry form, R40 cash entry fee with two clear post card size photographs, 1 x head & shoulder and 1 x full length, accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope, in a sealed envelope to Kretzmarine Boating, 157 Heugh Road, Walmer or to 7 Main Street, Despatch or in Kirkwood to the Festival offices at 9 Main Street, Kirkwood.

For more information call Lisa Perino on 082 713 3024

Inskryf vorm vir die Mej Wildsfees 2009

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Hot to trot indoors and out: Boss model Imaan Macquena was born in Durban and represented her province in hockey and swimming. Nowadays she calls Cape Town home, and has signed up for surfing lessons. Picture: Fanie Nel/fanjam

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Bombshell Lyndall Jarvis once described herself as “creepy”. The 25-year-old beauty from Cape Town was actually referring to Laughing Octopus, a character based on her which features in the popular futuristic video game, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots.

“It’s a bit creepy! I’m a bit creepy,” she said laughing in an interview shortly after the game’s release.

But this week, Jarvis’s icy blue eyes, golden locks and famous “twins” earned her the coveted top spot in FHM magazine’s annual Sexiest Woman in the World survey. More than a million votes were cast in the local version of the poll.

She beat foxy fellow frontrunners IPL Miss Bollywood SA Gabrielle Demetriades, American actress Megan Fox, Cape surfer Roxy Louw, TV personality Shashi Naidoo and model Joelle Kayembe to the title.

Jarvis inherited the crown from her friend and fellow model, Tracy McGregor. She admitted to dancing with joy after hearing the news.

“I was ecstatic and it was the first call of the morning. What a way to start your day! I did a little happy dance in my living room,” Jarvis said.

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Article By: Thamar Houliston
Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:19

Tatum Keshwar — the newly-crowned Miss South Africa — is a strong, dynamic and beautiful young woman, who only two months into her reign, has already established herself as an inspiration. Speaking to Tatum I realised that she certainly recognises her role as the new Miss South Africa, but also knows what’s most important — her close friends and family.

Hailing from Durban, the 25-year-old model is passionate about all things local, which is why she’s coming to Cape Town this weekend (7-8 February) for the Cape Town Tens tournament, taking place at Hamilton Rugby Club. Talking about being ‘rooted’, she says that her role-models all rank as strong South African businesswomen who have established themselves in South Africa. Although there’s a long list of local women who inspire her, Tatum says the two she would say who are at the top of her list are Basetsana Khumalo (who she got to spend a little time with at this last weekend’s J&B Met) and Jo-Ann Strauss.

Homegrown and headstrong

You may also have seen Tatum on the ramps at the recent Audi Joburg Fashion Week. Yep, no front-row tickets for Tatum, she prefers to get involved. And she supports local design with her most favourite designers from her hometown, Durban. She names Gideon, Leigh Schubert, Thula Sindi and Gavin Rajah as some of the designers that she really admires. Being a Durban girl she also loves the sunshine, and was delighted to be in Cape Town this last weekend for the J&B Met, with the weather being “absolutely beautiful”, which to a Durban girl means ‘hot’.

Still finding her feet

Since winning the title in December, Tatum has moved to Johannesburg where she’s finding her feet — and she admits, “occasionally I do have to consult a map”. “I’m loving my new role, but my life has taken a complete 180-degree turn since I won, with functions, shoots and so on…

“It has been fantastic meeting new people. A good example was the J&B Met this weekend, where I spoke to so many wonderful people who all were so warm and welcoming, which was really encouraging.” The highlight of Tatum’s reign so far has been receiving an award from the Mayor of Durban for outstanding achievement. Her list of future highlights includes meeting Madiba (of course!), as well as the Miss World pageant in December this year.

Tatum is in Cape Town this weekend for the inaugural Cape Town Tens, where she will be handing out the prizes on Sunday, and will once again be staying at The Table Bay Hotel — a hotel she says is very impressive, especially the five-star service given by the staff, who are warm, caring and thoughtful. “I have stayed in five-star hotels all around the world, and could not believe the wonderful service I got at the Table Bay, from the drivers who went beyond the call of duty to fetch and carry me, to the entire hotel staff,” says Tatum. “The location of the Table Bay is also spectacular with views of the mountain, sea and city, while the attention to detail in the rooms is simply beautiful.”

Absolutely loves Cape Town

Having travelled extensively as a model before being crowned Miss South Africa, Tatum has spent quite a lot of time in Cape Town, and simply loves the place. “There’s nowhere better in the world to watch the sunset than from Clifton,” she says, “I also enjoy just chilling on the beach, and I especially enjoy that it has such a cosmopolitan vibe.” Tatum says she doesn’t really have much spare time on her hands, but she does love reading a good novel and practicing yoga.

At the moment she is reading Richard Branson’s book — ‘Screw It, Let’s Do It’ — with the intention of becoming another one of SA’s leading female business minds. Watch out for this beauty, she’s seriously got her head ’screwed’ on straight, and is bound to be up there with her role-models in no time at all.

Catch Tatum Keshwar at the Cape Town Tens tournament at Hamilton RFC in Green Point this coming weekend.

source: iAfrica/Lifestyle section

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M-Net Face of Africa has been mired in controversy since its inception in 1998. Now, on the eve of its seventh leg, Ziphezinhle Msimango wonders whether there is a need for the competition at all.

It’s 1998, and 16-year-old Oluchi Onweagba is selling bread on the streets of Lagos to make ends meet. She has no idea that soon she will land a contract with Elite Model Management in New York, widely regarded as the world’s biggest modelling agency. That, in just five years, she is to grace the covers of magazines like Italian Vogue and Marie Claire, and sashay down the international catwalk in haute couture by Christian Dior and John Galliano. And that, Cinderella-like, she’d marry legendary Italian designer, Luca Orlandi, one day. But, in the same year that she finds herself plying the streets, a friend convinces her to audition for the first-ever M-Net Face of Africa modelling competition in Zimbabwe. Onweagba’s world changes forever.

In 2000, 16-year-old Nombulelo Mazibuko, a schoolgirl from Khayelitsha, wins Face of Africa, lands a 150000 contract with the Elite agency, and goes off into New York’s sunset. But, barely two years later, she’s sent back to South Africa — the agency thinks she’s too fat. Mazibuko returns home and leaves the modelling world behind for an office job.

Botswana’s Kaone Kario, 20, who won the competition in 2005, says, “I flew in a plane for the first time because of Face of Africa. I think it does so much for this continent. But what you do with the exposure you get as the winner is up to you.”

It’s been two years since Kario won the competition.

She’s now based in Cape Town and almost all her modelling jobs are in South Africa.

“Personally, I’ve tried the international modelling scene and I don’t prefer it,” says Kario, who claims she battled racism at European castings. “It’s so tough when you arrive at a casting and people are shocked that you’re actually black.”

As part of Face of Africa 2008, 12 girls aged between 18 and 22 are in Dar es Salaam for the competition’s model bootcamp. It’s early November, and they are learning sundry modelling ‘how-tos’ — from working the ramp to the complexities of international income tax, which a model working overseas must master sooner rather than later.

Yet, as this effer- vescent gaggle of girls rehearse for their very first catwalk experi- ence at Swahili Fashion Week 2008 in Dar es Salaam, it seems most aren’t considering the unthinkable: This competition may not make their dreams come true.

“My friends encouraged me to enter and I listened to them,” says Tanzania’s Helen Ambrose, 19, in Swahili. She speaks through a translator — she doesn’t understand any English. Ambrose, who stopped her education at the end of primary school to find a job in Tanzania’s flourishing tourism industry, adds: “Winning would mean an education, and the opportunity for me to uplift other girls from my community.”

Three days later, her hopes are sunk when she’s voted out of the competition and the gold dust disappears in a poof. Another girl, also faced with the disappointment of being eliminated, steals money from the bags of her fellow contestants. She says she wanted to use it to pay for her brother’s school fees. The organisers may not be proud of this incident but, still, perhaps it provides an instructive insight into how the competition seems a magic bullet for only a few — rags to rags, if you will.

When the first Face of Africa competition was launched in 1998, it captivated girls across Africa. In it, for the first time, they saw the chance to show the world their wares; and a direct passage to international runways was at their fingertips. At this time, the only black high-fashion models were either born in the West, like Naomi Campbell and Tyra Banks. Or, they were even rarer, like Alek Wek, who moved from her native Sudan to London in 1991, and was subsequently discovered at a fleamarket.

Regardless of the brouhaha around some winners vanishing into an abyss — in spite of the brave new world one might associate with the competition winner — Onweagba, who is at the bootcamp, counters: “Each Face of Africa winner has been unique in her own way, and each has had her own level of success.

read the entire article on the Sunday Times website.

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Spicing up Spice island: The super-sensual Shashi Naidoo, on location in Zanzibar for FHM magazine’s January issue, on sale now Picture: FHM/NIC BOULTON

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The weakening Rand and global economic downturn has contributed to further delays in the production of local reality TV series The Model Millions. The series will be taking a two week broadcast hiatus as it repositions itself to cope with the ever-fluctuating exchange rates.

According to Wayne Kyle, Executive Producer for The Model Millions, the sudden fall in the value of the Rand has had an impact of over R9m on the budget of the series and forced the producers to scramble to hedge the series’ finances and raise additional sponsorships. “As recently as last week we lost a major funding source from the United States as a result of the economic chaos in that country. Luckily we have managed to secure additional sponsorships and hedge our international transactions but it has unfortunately impacted on the production and put us behind on deliverables to the SABC.” explains Kyle. We have been forced to request some changes to the schedule from the SABC to accommodate the production timelines in the form of a two-week break in broadcast. This will allow us time to get things back on-track and running smoothly, Kyle added.

This means that the next time that viewers will be able to see the local series is the 19th of November. There will be no broadcast of the series on the 5th or 12th of November as SABC3 brings viewers the scheduled cricket action in the Model Millions slot on Wednesday nights. But Kyle has promised to keep viewers constantly updated via SABC3, the Model Millions website and their Facebook Group. “We’re not going anywhere”, Kyle says. “We are determined to bring the South African public the full series even if it means that it will only end in January. We have had great support from the models, hosts, presenters, crew and the viewers and look forward to delivering an even bigger and better series in November. We will also spend this time implementing changes to the series based on viewer feedback including possible revisions to the competition mechanic.”

PLEASE SEND US YOUR CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS A BETTER SERIES.

Send to: info@modelmillions.tv

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COULD YOU BE NEXT?

Miss South Africa and Miss SA Teen call for entries

Entries are now open for Miss SA and Miss SA Teen 2008 which will take place at Sun City on 13 December 2008, during a live one and half hour broadcast on SABC2.

Sun International, the license holder of Miss SA and Miss SA Teen, is looking for someone with extra special qualities. This is no ordinary pageant as the winner of Miss SA represents South Africa internationally and locally; plays an important role in various Sun International Corporate Social Investment projects and interacts both socially and in a business environment with leaders in society. Not only do you have to have beauty and a bikini-perfect body but you also have to be compassionate, intelligent and charitable.

Entry forms can be found in the following editions of Huisgenoot / You / Drum Magazines: 15th and 22nd August 2008-Cape Town,

18th and 25th August- Johannesburg and are also available at all Sun International hotels, casino’s and resorts. Closing date for entries is 31 August 2008

Once the entry form selection criteria has been taken care of, candidates will be invited to participate in all major cities (Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg) from 13 to 21 September. From these candidates, 40 semi-finalists for both pageants will be chosen and they will be flown to Johannesburg, transferred to Sun City and will enjoy an entertaining workshop for a week, from 16 to 22 October. The workshop includes lessons in deportment, etiquette, hairstyling and make-up. The semi-finalists will also learn how to market themselves effectively and how to deal with the media.

The final 24 contestants (12 for Miss SA and 12 for Miss SA Teen ) will be a group of passionate young women driven by their belief that they have a role to play in tackling some of the tougher social challenges in South Africa. Apart from the commercial aspects of the pageant and the glamour and benefits it will bring them, they will learn how to use their prestige to benefit the under privileged in South Africa.

If you’ve always aspired to be a beauty queen then this is your window of opportunity to be at the forefront of fashion, attend SA’s finest social occasions, meet the who’s who of corporate SA and firmly establish yourself on the next rung of your life plan. Being Miss South Africa and Miss SA Teen is not for wilting lilies, it’s for exotic blooms of tropical splendour. You have to know how to dazzle, to sparkle and to keep it up 24:7.

There are early morning photo-shoots, late night social occasions, overnight travel and people – lots of them. But it’s worth it. This pageant comes with the biggest prizes and the most prestige and Miss South Africa gets to wear an incredible t for the year of her reign.

Potential Miss SA Teens who are between the age of 15 to 18 years and Miss South Africa contestants who are between the ages of 19 to 24 years are eligible to enter. All “terms and conditions” are available on the website www.misssa.co.za or www.misssateen.co.za. You can also download the entry form on the website.

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Model Tanya van Graan said she was unhappy that Heat magazine decided to use naked pictures of her. “I am not a wild girl and I’m not a stripper.” The photographs are from clips of the movie Starship Troopers 3: Marauder.

Van Graan, who was FHM’s sexiest woman in 2007, plays the role of Sergeant Sunday in this Hollywood movie, which also stars American actor Casper van Dien. In the scene, which lasts about one minute, Van Graan was seen naked from a strategically placed panel. The scene shows how the “starship troopers” are being cleansed.

Acting passion

Van Graan told Beeld on Thursday that she had tried to get an interdict to prevent the magazine from printing the photographs, but her legal adviser told her she would not succeed as the movie scenes from which they originated, had already been made public. “The photographs were taken out of context and used where they don’t belong.” She also claimed that the magazine refused to show her the clips. As a result, Van Graan said she told them she would not be able to comment. Van Graan said what made her unhappy, was that she was put in a position where she had to explain herself. “People think I’m not an actress, but acting is my passion. People think if a model does nude scenes, it is because they are desperate for an acting career, but it’s not the case. I chose to play in the film and I stand by my choice.” Melinda Shaw, chief editor of Heat, said their legal team and Van Graan’s legal team had spoken before publication.

source: Sanri van Wyk, Beeld

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By making use of the social networking website Facebook.com, Jump Shopping embarked on a quest to find a model for the

Jump Shopping Brand. After three months, hundreds of entries and 2 weeks of voting, Adele Segal was crowned as the Face of Jump Shopping for 2008.

“It was an absolutely crazy phenomenon and we are very happy with the outcome of the competition.” says Albert Bredenhann, Managing Director of Jump Shopping. “Without being 100% sure, we estimate that approximately 40,000 Facebook users were exposed to the competition as fan-groups and emails in support to some of the contestants were created”.

Jump Shopping, South Africa’s biggest online shopping search engine, embraced the internet and the social working behind the internet to grow their online presence. From the hundreds of entries to the competition it was down to the final 30 contestants and two weeks of voting. There were more than 10,000 votes on the Jump Shopping website.

Adele Segal, a beauty therapist from Johannesburg walked away with R5000, a photo shoot and the Title of Face of Jump Shopping for 2008.

“We are still deciding how we would capatilise on the beauty of Adele in order to promote Jump Shopping even further and it all will be revealed soon” says Bredenhann.

Jump Shopping currently has more than 235,000 unique visitors per month according to Google Analytics and approximately 200 South African online stores already joined the Jump Shopping website.

Source: Jump Shipping

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