Ban Miss Zimbabwe pageantry!

Ban Miss Zimbabwe pageantry!

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MISS Zimbabwe 2004 Oslie Muringai returned from the Miss World Finals in China dejected after failing to be a finalist in any of the categories. Questions are being asked: What are we gaining out of these useless pageants where women strip down and parade themselves for public approval. Kudakwashe Marazanye, writing in the Zimbabwe Independent says beauty pageants should be banned. He says: "Government should pass a law that forbids girls at tertiary institutions whose education it funds from taking part in beauty contests as this puts to waste tax payers' money. A third world country like Zimbabwe needs all the budding and potential pharmacists, engineers etc before satiating the appetites of rich men with beautiful ladies." Do you support his view? Send your e-mails, clearly stating where you are writing from, to newsdesk@newzimbabwe.com

Editor - Does it mean everyone who goes wins? We all have good and bad times!
Lameck Nyamukapa
UK

Editor - Point well taken my brother. If we were to ban all that we lose on how about the following: senior national soccer team, opposition parties....you remind me of Mai Mahofa mudhara but coming from a man? You got issues mate!
Costa Malunga
UK

Editor - I write to respond the above named discussion. It is sad to read that somebody of the stature of yourself should not only contemplate but also bring out in international media the retrogressive idea of baning the Miss ZIMBABWE beauty pageant's competition. Beauty pageantry is probably the most world acclaimed platform where young ladies express their deepest sense of feminity and should be allowed to excel. It is unfortunate that the culture or mentality of banning whatever one thinks to be of no particular use to them as individuals is detrimental to a dynamic world where civil liberties are of no meaning to a few influencial fellow Zimbas like your writer.

To conclude I strongly urge the writer to wake up and face up to the reality of beautiful women. Dear writer if you can't shut up then put up and clap your hands to our representative Oslie Muringai and all others who have failed at the last hurdle. Chakanaka chakanaka mukaka haurungwi hamayangu.
Tawanda Saunyama
UK

Editor - To me, it seems like there is a beauty pageant in Zimbabwe every month. That is ridiculous and laughable. I live in the United states, where fashion shows are a daily thing, but not beauty pageants. Zimbabwe has much more beauty pageants than the United States, a country that is more than 50 times bigger in size. Zimbabwe has beautiful sisters, but the so called beauty pageants are a joke. Sick and tired of this pageant rubbish, enough of it. Yes, I agree, ban pageants or reduce this money making scam to once a year. And please do not televise it. Shame on ZBC!
WHATZ UP
USA

"What century are you living in, what's wrong for that beautiful young woman going for her dreams? She can't be a politician, can she?"

KAZVITA SILIKA

Editor - Tell them my brother, you have reasoned exactly like me. What a shameless father she has got. What input did she and her father contribute towards those assumed good looks. She is a striper in a country whose level of development has not reached a stage where citizens can sit down and admire long legs and a bony body. After all skinny is beatiful in the eyes of a whiteman not blackman. To a blackman, skinny is thin fullstop.
Maseko
Bulawayo

Editor - These so called beauty pageants should be banned!
Chunx Zhakodo

Editor - I and I in support of this man. Ban the beauty ting what's the use for real. Zim is getting noting from dis, instead wasting. Again if I may ask what the hell waz she doing in China of all places. Ban this wicked thing. Seen?
David Nhimba

Editor - I support the idea of banning Miss Zimbabwe very much. Anything to do with undressing women in public must be banned. I remember way back in the eighties this Miss Zimbabwe was banned and I just don't know who brought it back. What have we benefited from this event? Nothing. Maybe Kirky Divaries would like to list down for us all benefits to justify why it should not be banned. After all vasikana vacho havarooreke. Kana vakaroorwa havagari mumba vanenge vangojaira zvekugara vasina kusimira izvi. If they want to continue let them continue without being naked. They should be in full dresses. They should also be masters of the Zimbabwean culture.
Anti Nakedness

Editor - I fully support the idea of banning the so called beauty pageants. There is no need to live in fantasy dreamlife when majority are suffering. For how long shall we pretend life is normal when we have no doctors,nurses,teachers,lawyers you name it. There is no time for joy parading now. We need to direct our energies towards developmental issues.
O Soza
Harare

Editor - What century are you living in, what's wrong for that beautiful young woman going for her dreams? She can't be a politician, can she? If you have your own kids who have their ambitions, let them be. I am glad you are not running a third world country or a grocery store, move with the times! You scare the jesus out of me because you are writing with such authority as if you are right!
Kazvita Silika

Editor - I strongly believe that these pageants should be dropped because it does nothing good to our society except destroying our moral and cultural values.What gain is it to us if an 18 year old girl walks on the stage half naked? Looking back, no beauty was seen through modelling, beauty was beauty even if one was putting on clothes even in the Bible, many people like Solomon were said to be handsome does it mean they had to walk naked to capture people's attentions?
Sarah
South Africa

Editor - You are such a hypocrite, you are advocating control and ban on beauty pageants. Are you not the same news media that are against media control from the Mugabe regime? Why are you trying to control people? If Oslie wants to parade herself in front of the world, surely thats her prerogative. Who gives you the right to tell her not too. Personally I do not think beauty pageants mean anything but I still do not have the right to judge the women. If you yourself did not like them, then why did you watch the Miss World. Get a grip of yourself, you have lived in Mugabe's Zimbabwe so long you are now poisoned by that regime's control freak mentality. Publish this and let's see if you are not a biased journalist or then again will you try and control free press.
Jonnah
This Saturday, the Miss Zimbabwe (UK) pageant takes place at the Croydon Hotel in London. For more details go to the website ZimExpo
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