Chadibe Oldies In Beauty Contest

Chadibe Oldies beauty contests held during Independence holidays PIC: PINI BOTHOKO
Chadibe Oldies beauty contests held during Independence holidays PIC: PINI BOTHOKO

CHADIBE: The Independence holidays produced a night to remember as elderly women aged from 50 to 76 years competed to be crowned the fairest of them all.

Garbed in Setswana wear, some of the senior citizens could only waddle, toddle and shuffle.  The contestants were named after local and international musicians whose music was the soundtrack of the night.

The youth, some of whom were their children and grandchildren, filled the Tlhalogang Junior Secondary School hall to the rafters and cheered throughout the show. Kgathego Raditsebe, 54 who went by the tag of Zahara and catwalked to the melodies of Loliwe, was crowned the queen.

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