Fashioning Modern Africanism

Natasha Joubert from Centurion in Tshwane has been crowned Miss South Africa 2023 at the spectacular pageant finale held at the SunBet Arena at Time Square in Pretoria on Sunday night. Joubert (26) is a BCom Marketing Management graduate and is the owner and fashion designer of Natalia Jefferys, a company she started when she was 19. Runner-up was Johannesburg’s Bryoni Govender who was also the Motherkind fitness award winner. An emotional and overwhelmed Joubert said she was truly humbled and grateful to win the title and to be the first to wear the glittering new Mowana (“Tree of Life”) crown from Nungu Diamonds. She received   R1 million in cash in a prize and sponsorship package that includes   the use of a serviced apartment at the lavish Brookfield at Royal in Kensington – developed by Tricolt – for the year of her reign.  She will also get to drive  a Mercedes-Benz   GLC   as well as go on a trip to Paris sponsored by L’Oreal. In her acceptance speech Joubert, a firm favourite a

The gown includes local children’s perceptions of lockdown and the pandemic  through their own drawings Miss Universe South Africa, Natasha Joubert, has revealed some of the outfits she will be wearing when the 69th Miss Universe pageant takes place in Florida in the US on Sunday, May 16, when our own Zozibini Tunzi will crown her successor at the end of the event.   Twenty-three-year-old Joubert, a B. Comm graduate, believes she is fully prepared for Miss Universe: "My preparations started when I was crowned Miss Universe South Africa last year. I have been looking forward to this event from the moment of my crowning and will carry the Miss Universe South Africa title with pride. I know that I have big shoes to fill following in the footsteps of both Zozi and Demi-Leigh Nel- Peters.”   Joubert’s national costume – which she showed off at her Miss Universe farewell as part of her  #DestinyDesigned  virtual fashion show – has been designed by designer to the stars Gert-Johan Coetze