As the Miss Zimbabwe Trust announced that there will be no Zimbabwe at Miss World beauty pageant this year, the news hasn’t gone down well with the Stakeholders. The stakeholders in the modelling sectors have accused Miss Zimbabwe Trust of not taking the contest seriously.

Miss Zimbabwe spokesperson Tendai Chirau claimed the decision was taken after the trust failed to get the ewquired number of models to conduct the pageant.  “Miss Zimbabwe Trust would like to inform its stakeholders and the generality of Zimbabweans that it will not be holding the 2016 edition of Miss World Zimbabwe. The trust will hold the next pageant in 2017 and the 13 aspiring queens, who were shortlisted during the scouting process, have an automatic entry for the 2017 pageant,” part of the statement read.

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Mercy “Catwalk” Mushaninga , former model and founder of Zim Gossip Models Agency said that the trust had really let modelling agencies down as they were doing their best to groom models.  “As modelling agencies, whom will we be grooming for, if we fail to host the national pageant, which almost every aspiring and young model wants to be part of, but are missing such opportunities because of such discontinuities?” Mushaninga queried.

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“I was there at the auditions and from the girls who came, I believe they had potential and probably what Miss Zimbabwe Trust could have done was to take them into boot camp and chose the best from there,” Mushaninga added.

The President of Miss United Countries, Taremeredzwa Munzara said that it’s time to try new ways and not depend on just one monopoly. “It’s time for new things. People must start being creative and not wait for one pageant all year. We can have many national pageants to avoid monopoly. There are many international pageants in the world that need country directors for Zimbabwe, but nobody is stepping up to take franchises,” Munzara said.