Beauty Pageants

Mr SA is just around the corner — but last year it was postponed and now contestants allege money has disappeared.

A 3rd year degree student at the Botswana Accountancy College, Lebanna is no stranger to beauty pageants.

By upending common perceptions, the new Miss Uganda is heralding a different kind of beauty.

The Chinese diaspora in Africa is getting its first shot at a global pageant crown for China.

In a bid to prevent the "hypersexualisation" of children, the French State Senate has voted to ban beauty contests for girls under the age of 16.

As Nina Davuluri took the title of Miss America, Haji Mohamed Dawjee looks at the harsh reception the first Indian-American winner received.

After a decade-long absence, the Miss Algeria beauty contest is to resume on Friday in the western city of Oran, says organisers.

A war of words has broken out between admirers of voluptuous female figures and those who plump for a more streamlined, traditionally Western, shape.

Organisers of the annual beauty contest Miss Spain have filed for bankruptcy in the midst of a deep recession.

The City of Jo’burg has announced that it has requested the public protector to investigate its controversial hosting of the 2009 Miss World pageant.

Miss SA first princess Remona Moodley will be tackling Miss World, in Melinda Bam’s absence. We find out what lies beneath the lipgloss and hairspray.

Foreigners were seen in a different light as Zimbabwean beauties descended on Pretoria, writes <b>Oupa Nkosi</b>.

Sick of the same old pageants? Categories in Pride Pooch include super Staffie, best rescue dog, looky-likey, dandiest dog and prettiest bitch.

Definitely not your mother’s beauty pageant. Or is it? <b>Lisa Steyn</b> reports.

A beauty pageant in which landmine victims were to compete to win a prosthetic limb has been cancelled after the government said it was in bad taste.