MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Mossel Bay's Deon Lensing has been crowned Sir South Africa 2023 and Sir Universe South Africa 2023.

The crowning for these Pageants SA titles took place in Pretoria on 1 April.

Deon was a top 10 finalist in Mr South Africa last year.

A press release from Pageants SA noted that it was the 24th annual crowning event of the Miss & Mr Junior South Africa and Universal and Sir South Africa pageant.

Started in 2000

"The pageant was started in the year 2000 by Carolyn Baldwin. More than 8 500 winners have been crowned in various Pageants SA events and together with the winners and titleholders, more than 500 000 charity events have been held, thereby helping more than four million people to date."

In the pageant, each contestant's interview by the judges was followed by a casual wear and evening wear ramp walk.

Humanitarian

Already known as a humanitarian in the Garden Route area, Deon will also undertake charity work in the Mossel Bay community over the next 12 months as part of his two new Pageants SA titles.

To date, Deon's charity work has included supporting animal welfare causes, motivational speaking and planting trees as part of environmental projects in the Mossel Bay area.

He is a director and secretary of The Anti-Bullying Academy NPO, registered in March 2022. The academy assists bullies and those being bullied to break the bullying cycle.

Deon started his work career at a construction company, where he was employed as a foreman and went on to be the senior land surveyor.

He then left construction to work as a financial adviser.

Online marketing specialist

Currently he is an online marketing specialist and co-owner of AddMax, an events company.

He is an assistant to Karen Gray, who owns Crawlers and Crowns Model Academy and Eden SA Pageants. He has significant experience, organising pageants and entering pageants himself.

Deon is also a spinning instructor at a Hartenbos gym.

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