REDDS MISS TANZANIA 2014

The Guardian, 23-Sep-2013: Happiness Watimanywa who won Miss Dodoma added another silverware collection in her beauty career after being crowned as new Redds Miss Tanzania during a highly colorful gala held at the Mlimani City auditorium in early hours of yesterday morning.

The 19-year old Watimanywa will represent the country at Miss World beauty pageant contest to be held next year at a place to be announced later.

Besides the title she was presented with a 16m/- valued car and 8m/- in cash

The winner beat two other contestants who cruised into the top three and these were Latifa Mohamedi and Clara Bayo who eventually emerged first and second runners-up, respectively. Mohamedi and Bayo got away with 6.2m/- and 4m/- respectively.

The 19-year old Watimanywa will represent the country at Miss World contest next year and she was given a 16m/- valued car and 8m/- cheque.

The other two contestants who were on the top five final list were Elizabeth Peter and Lucy Tomeka.

The winner was crowned by last year’s first runners-up Eugine Fabian while the 2012 winner Bridgit Alfred is still competing at Miss World in Bali, Indonesia.

A total of 30 beauty contestants from a cross the country competed at the premier show whose chief judge Ramesh Shah said this year’s event attracted participants who are beautiful, hence intelligent.
He hopes that Watimanywa will make a good representation of the country at next year’s Miss World.

"I’m sure Watimanywa will represent us well at the coming International events, she is beautiful and intelligent", he said.

The event was colored by music performances from Judith Wambula alias Lady Jay Dee and Ugandan musician Michel Rossi and traditional dances were performed by One Star.

This year’s contest was sponsored by Redds, Zanzi Cream Liqueur, Nipashe, Giraffe Hotel, Star TV, Marie Stopes, Uchumi and The Guardian Limited took media sponsorship through its sister newspaper, NIPASHE.