Times Of Swaziland: Blame it on SBPA-Miss  Pigg's Peak organisers

Blame it on SBPA-Miss  Pigg's Peak organisers
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 VELILE DUBE on 16/12/2011 00:00:00


MBABANE –"We are not getting any guidance from the Swaziland Beauty Pageant
Association and that is why there will always be controversy."
These were the words of the Miss Pigg’s Peak beauty pageant Public Relations
Officer, Ntombifuthi Masimula, after she was asked what would happen to Miss
Pigg’s Peak 2011, Nomfundo Dlamini, who is alleged to have been crowned under
a cloud of controversy.
The contest has always been one that is full of controversy, as last year’s
queen, Fikile Gama, had to step down after she was faced with relationship
issues where two men were fighting over her. The title was passed on to her 1st
princess, Gcinaphi Gule, who in reports was found in a car with an American
Pastor, James Furbanks looking ‘cozy’.
Masimula said all this would not be happening if they had been given guidance
from the beginning as to what qualities should be for when choosing a queen. "We
organise this contest with no guidance whatsoever and I believe that is why
things go wrong."
The latest scandal on the pageant was reported by a community member of the
small town who alleged that all the other contestants struggled to answer the
questions at the contest but Dlamini was ‘flowing’ as she had seen all the
questions a night before the event.
Dlamini is said to have been given the questions by her sister Mandisa Dlamini,
former Miss Piggs Peak 2nd princess, who at first denied taking the questions
but later mentioned that she did take the questions but did not give them to her
sister.
Mandisa was given the questions by Masimula who said it was all a mistake. In
yesterday’s article Masimula is quoted to have said Mandisa asked for the
questions to compare them with those from last year and then she forgot the copy
with the young lass, and when she remembered that she had forgotten the copy
with Mandisa she called her the following day to ask for them but Mandisa
responded to her and said she had forgotten them at home.
When SBPA President Tony Dlamini was called, he said they made an effort to meet
with the Miss Pigg’s Peak organisers and asked them to come to the Swaziland
National Council of Arts and Culture offices, so that they can be given the
framework but they never showed up.
In connection with what would happen to Nomfundo, Dlamini he said they were
still to meet with the pageant organisers to find out what really happened and
then take a decision.