Gaelebale faces intense battle at Miss World

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Miss Botswana Gaelebale now has a huge task of avoiding elimination PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

The race for the Miss World 2017 title is intensifying with Botswana’s Nicole Gaelebale and other contestants getting into activities that will see some of them getting eliminated.

The grand finale of the international pageant will take place on November 18 in Sanya, China. Locally all eyes are on Gaelebale, Miss Botswana 2017, who is representing the country this time around.

One of the activities that the contestants have recently gone through is the head-to-head challenge, which puts contestants into groups of five or six.

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