Beauty pageants are more about controversies and less about beauty queens and the winning moment these days. Everything and anything you do hold the potential to turn against you, and this has been proved in one of the recent incidents where reigning Miss South Africa Demi Leigh Nel Peters went to an orphanage.

In a recent update, photos of Miss South Africa wearing gloves while visiting black children at an orphanage in Soweto garnered controversy. People tagged the act as the act of racism. However, the orphanage staff claimed that the act wasn’t at all racist, and in fact was pure on hygiene basis. "Of course it wasn't because she didn't want to touch black children," says Carol Dyantyi, a spokesperson for the Orlando West Community Centre Ikageng.

Nel Peters volunteered to feed orphans at the centre, and the beauty had her gloves on as health and safety measures."We told her, and all other volunteers, to wear them while they were handling food around the children," Dyantyi tells BBC Trending. "It was purely to protect the children from the risk of contaminated food. This social media reaction is ridiculous."

But, the impact of the media was visible on Twitteratis who, in no time, flooded the internet with memes. Many accused the beauty queen of wearing the latex gloves "because she didn't want to touch black children" and shared images of her hugging dogs and white children with bare hands. Here is what the Twitteratis did…

Later, Nel-Peters posted a video on her Twitter account in which she said that the gloves were only for sanitary reasons and denied any racial undertones. Apologising to those offended in the video she said, “All the volunteers on site wore gloves today because we honestly thought that it’s the right thing to do while working with food and while handing out food to young kids.”

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