Meet the beautiful and intelligent Miss Teen Universe Botswana

Machobane PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
Machobane PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE

She is the fairest teenager of them all and on top of that the beautiful 18-year-old Gorata Machobane was on March 31 crowned Miss Teen Universe 2017 and she is ready to take on the world. Mmegi Staff Writer MOMPATI TLHANKANE sat down with the alluring beauty with brains to inquire about her future in the broad industry of pageantry

Showbiz: Can you briefly describe your crowning moment?

Gorata: To be honest when I was crowned I was over the moon and ecstatic. It is something words cannot describe. I was in a state of bliss. I was competing against 15 participants. There was a moment when I looked at each and every one of them and analysed their abilities and all of them were threats. At the 11th hour I decided to compete with myself rather than with those girls.

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