The first time I met Mzansi’s beacon of hope Zozibini Tunzi I asked her an uncomfortable question: "Do you know if you are going to enter Miss Universe or Miss World?"

She was flabbergasted by the unexpected question.  In all fairness she couldn’t answer it because a few minutes earlier she had just been crowned Miss SA at Sun Arena, Time Square, in Pretoria,  August 9, last year...