2021 Miss Namibia title holder Chelsi Shikongo recently took to social media to express her feelings about the pageant which she says has done nothing but brought humiliation, trauma and brokenness to her and other beauty queens.
“I just hope that they will do better now that there is a new partnership .I am just happy that everyone have seen the pageant for who it really is, I personally feel like it is humiliating to have been Miss Namibia,” she adds.
Shikongo further urged the organizing team to secure fruitful future plans for title winners in the near future saying that the same way she walked into the pageant is the same way she walked out.
“What happens to a person’s life after they are no longer title holders? “she questions.
Apart from Shikongo, in 2019, Former Miss Namibia 2016 Lizelle Esterhuisen also recalled the said ‘discouraging ordeal and emotional abuse she had to endure months after winning the competition.
In a previous interview with a local newspaper, Esterhuisen was quoted saying she had to spent more than N$300 000 out of her own pocket while bearing the title of Miss Namibia.
According to her, emotional type of abuse was always present in her year as Miss Namibia 2016.
Contacted for a comment, questions sent to Miss Namibia national director Connie Maritz went unanswered.
