Miss Supranational Botswana auditions
Friday, January 13, 2023 | 140 Views |
Moremong PIC: SIR THOMAS SAGE
Miss Supranational is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by the World Beauty Association. Botswana is set to make her debut at this year’s 14th Miss Supranational International beauty pageant finale to be held in Poland around July.
This comes after a local creative establishment; Something Big was awarded a license franchise to organise and host the local pageant for the next five years. In an interview with Arts & Culture, Something Big spokesperson, Kaone Moremong said this scouting and auditions would take them on a countrywide tour from January 21 until February 18, 2023.
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