Ntsima shines at Miss Heritage World 2015
Monday, November 23, 2015

Miss Heritage Botswana, Kgomotsego Ntsima
The Miss Heritage World was held in Sandton, South Africa on November 14 where the beauties from 54 nations spent three weeks in preparation and related assignments. She paraded her 1.74m grandeur in a journey accompanied by her manager, Bakang Keimetswe and the co-director of Miss Heritage Botswana, Khumo Leburu.
She told The Monitor that the love she has for cultural heritage and the desire to inspire other young people, motivated her to join Miss Heritage. Ntsima said apart from the competition, she learnt a lot as contestants exchanged experiences on life and culture from their countries. She was invited by the Croatian embassy in Pretoria where she provoked the diplomats’ interest to visit Botswana soon. Her presentation that impressed the judges most was a poem and a traditional dance she offered while adorned in traditional leather attire, provoking ululations from fellow Africans in the competition.
Here in Botswana, we have many single-parent households, mostly female-led, so what does that suggest? That some fathers choose to ditch the responsibility of caring for their children and leave them to the ones who carry them during pregnancy to do the heavy lifting.Of course, in other dynamics, there are instances where the father wants to keep the baby and the would-be mother does not want to, hence the saying ‘whose body is it anyway’.In...