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MOSSEL BAY NEWS AND VIDEO - Former beauty queen Tereza Troskie-Herbst was in Mossel Bay this weekend to promote her Dream Girl SA pageant and to speak to the entrants from the Mossel Bay area.
On Friday Troskie-Herbst met the deputy mayor, Alderman Cliffie Bayman, to promote the pageant and obtain the municipality’s buy-in.
Dream Girl SA is about entrepreneurship and charity work. It is not a normal beauty pageant. The oldest entrant from the Mossel Bay area is 56 years old.
Entrants are mentored on starting their own businesses and they must take part in entrepreneurship workshops, aimed to help them start their own businesses.
Entries have closed for the 2022 pageant. Entries for next year’s pageant must be in by 21 May 2022.
The Southern Cape agent of the pageant, Elize van Vuuren, gathered together the most entrants of all the 24 agents nationwide, so Troskie-Herbst decided to host the final of the 2022 and 2023 pageants in Mossel Bay.
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At the meeting with the entrants at the Oceans Hotel in Dias on Saturday, 7 May, Troskie-Herbst congratulated Van Vuuren and said she had performed the best of all the agents and that the hosting of the finals in Mossel Bay was the reward for her hard work.
For more information on entering next year’s Dream Girl SA, contact Elize van Vuuren (079 475 4449).
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Attractive prizes
Troskie-Herbst has secured partnerships with television programmes and high-profile business people for the pageant and there are extremely attractive prizes.
She spent two and a half hours, standing in high-heels, motivating the entrants and speaking on the rewards of gratitude, hard work, conscientiousness, good time management, being accountable and taking care of one’s physical and mental health.
“The only future for the youth is entrepreneurship,” Troskie-Herbst said.
She allowed people to ask questions and was extremely patient and open, answering questions about her personal life and showing how tragedy, grief, public criticism and false accusations have not changed her love for people and stopped her from still wanting to engage with people and help them.
Troskie-Herbst’s favourite philanthropic avenues are mentoring women, supporting an orphanage and animal welfare, especially dogs.
She grew up in Oudtshoorn and went to Outeniqua High School in George, starting her pageant career with Miss Quagga, Miss Diasstrand, the Oyster Queen and Miss Southern Cape. Recalling winning Mrs World International in Tennessee, Troskie-Herbst said that in her day, pageantry was only about height, weight and looks. But now, with Dream Girl SA, it was about helping others.
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