Two of South Africa’s best-loved television personalities – Anele Mdoda and Nico Panagio – will be co-hosting this year’s dazzling Miss South Africa pageant.
Miss South Africa 2021 will be crowned on Saturday, October 16, at the Grand Arena, GrandWest in Cape Town. The event will be screened live from 17h00 on M-Net (DStv Channel 101) and Mzansi Magic (DStv Channel 161) and will also be streamed for an international audience on MissSA.live. Anele Mdoda has been associated with Miss South Africa since 2013 as a judge but this is her first time hosting the pageant. It’s second time around for Panagio who recently completed fronting the latest series of Survivor SA for M-Net. So how does Anele feel about moving from the judges’ panel to centre stage: “It’s the Top 10 who are centre stage, I am merely a vehicle that moves the night along with an insight of where the finalists’ minds should be and what the judges will be thinking, and I will be the one giving the audience at home the scoop!” She encourages television and online viewers to tune in as the next queen is crowned: “It’s going to be a beautiful evening – finding our new Miss South