MISS SOUTH AFRICA 2014

We can just bet the new Miss South Africa 2014 is a fluent Afrikaans speaker. 

The new Miss South Africa 2014 is Rolene Strauss, 21 and a medical student and "test tube baby" hailing from Volksrust in Mpumalanga. She won the highly coveted title today during a televised, glittering gala at the Sun City Superbowl. Runners-up were Ziphozakhe Zokufa from Port Elizabeth and Matlala Mokoko from Johannesburg. 12 women competed for the title. The contest was revamped this year, and as part of revamping, a new crown, the "Palesa" (flower in Sesotho), was designed for the winner to wear. 

The "Palesa" crown