Jasmine Adams, from St Catherine’s School in Florida, was crowned Miss High School South Africa last weekend. She was awarded her title at a glitzy and prestigious event that was held at the Roodepoort Theatre.
The objective of the pageant is to empower young girls through education, which means that the winners receive bursaries for university, and participate in charity work, thus building social awareness and responsibility among them. This will also build confidence and leadership skills as the winning girls will become role models in their schools, communities, other schools and to young children across the country. The finalists are also mentored by influential women in the corporate, business, social and even political world. This competition sees more and more high school girls striving to take care of themselves, their femininity, their beauty and their academic studies, in order to be chosen to participate in the pageant, where not only beauty is sought after – leadership and intelligence are also prerequisites.
Mr South Africa, Armand du Plessis, and TV presenter, Gareth Brown were the presenters for the night, while Simone Myburgh, Kingdom Mahlangu, Mishka Kramer, Dannyboy Nyiko and Amanda Naidoo were the judges who selected the winner.
The competition entrants were 20 young high school girls from the provinces of the Eastern Cape, Polokwane, Mpumalanga and North West, amongst others.
Unam Mxaxa from De Aar High School in the Eastern Cape was crowned first princess, while Nadine Blouw from Boksburg High School on the East Rand was crowned as the second princess.
One of the prizes that Jasmine has been awarded is the opportunity to visit the Seychelles for a week.
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