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The annual Miss SA Teen pageant has been cancelled owing to financial difficulties.

The pageant - which used to be held alongside the premier event Miss South Africa competition - has been struggling to attract sponsors.

Sun International spokeswoman Sue Klerck said the decision to cancel the pageant had not been taken lightly and had been on the cards for a while.

"The reason for the move was to streamline costs and the available resources into one major event," Klerck explained.

"Every teen aspires to be Miss South Africa, so the age limit for the premier event was lowered to 18 to attract entries from the younger market."

Meanwhile, reigning Miss Teen Celeste Khumalo of Sandton, Johannesburg, will attend the Miss SA pageant as the last winner of the now defunct teen show. The event will be held at Sun City on December 9.

Away from the glare, the enterprising Khumalo got three Matric distinctions last year and was given sponsorship by Varsity College.

Sowetan highlighted Khumalo's financial plight last year, after her previous school nearly prevented her from attending a matric ball because of unpaid school fees.

The Miss SA Teen pageant has been a career launching pad for previous winners - some of whom have gone on to become television personalities.

These include Phuthi Khomo, who has acted in several dramas and Zizo Beda, who is with teen variety show Selimathunzi.

The youngest person to win the pageant was 14-year-old Mikaela Oosthuizen of Port Elizabeth, in 2010.

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Oct 12, 2012

cocolucho

She's very pretty, I like her...
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Oct 12, 2012

Mokaubere

"Sowetan highlighted Khumalo's financial plight last year, after her previous school nearly prevented her from attending a matric ball because of unpaid school fees.'

What about her prize money? Or she should have sold that Brazilian hair and paid her school fees. Thank God this useless pageant has been phased out. I call it useless because there is no proper advice for the girls on how to handle money and fame etc. Besides Phuti Khomo and Zizo Beda, some of the other winners were never exemplary teenagers. Remember that Daniels girl who, despite being heavily pregnant when she handed over her crown, her parents denied she was pregnant, until she gave birth in hiding? Remember the drug ravaged Sally Ann Kopa, who was last seen sleeping in a basement store room in Randburg?
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Oct 15, 2012

candilious

@Mokaubere-Yip Fame then Gloom.............these kids were not groomed at all ........
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Oct 19, 2012

NeoBaBe

They must just go to school.. they get exposed to these lime light and thats why they get preggies at an early stage..
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