If you think you have what it takes to be Mr, Miss or Miss Junior uShaka Marine World and believe you have the whole package – from beauty and brains to personality – you have until 2pm on Wednesday, February 24th to enter the 12th annual pageant.
Supported by Dairymaid, this year’s pageant offers prizes and cash totalling R50 000. The winners will also be included in uShaka Marine World’s advertising campaigns throughout the year and will be invited to attend all their high profile events for one year as well as go through to the semi/finals of the Mr and Miss South Africa Pageant due to take place later this year.
So don’t delay, enter now!
Whether you are a model registered to an Agency or entering in your individual capacity, you will need to submit 2 recent good quality images (one face and one full body) together with a valid entry form by Wednesday, February 24th at 2pm. Girls aged between 13 and 16 can enter the Miss Junior uShaka Marine World and young ladies and guys who are 17 and over can enter the Mr and Miss uShaka Marine World competition.
Those contestants who are successfully selected from the photo selections will be personally invited to go through to the uShaka Marine World regional selections on the dates listed below, hosted at the respective venues around KZN.
Finalists from the regional’s will then be invited to go through to the interview round on Sunday, March 20th at 10am.
After the interview round, a maximum of 25 per category will proceed to the semi-finals on Saturday, April 2nd at 10am at uShaka Wet ‘n Wild.
All semi-finalists chosen will then go through to the Facebook category where they will encourage supporters to vote for their photo on uShaka Marine World’s Facebook page. All likes received on their photo until April 28th at midnight will go towards the selection of Mr and Miss Photogenic. There will also be an uShaka SMS line where the public can vote for their favourite semi-finalist for the People’s Choice Award.
Thereafter, 15 finalists in each of the above three categories will go forward to the finals on Saturday, April 30th at 7pm at the Dolphin Stadium, Sea World.
Important dates to remember:
- Entries Close: Wednesday, February 24th at 14.00pm.
- Regional selections – Musgrave Shopping Centre – Friday, March 4th – 18.30pm
- Regional selections – Galleria Shopping Mall– Saturday, March 5th – 9.30am
- Regional selections – Boardwalk Inkwazi Mall – Sunday, March 6th – 10.00am
- Regional selections – uShaka Marine World – Saturday, March 12th – 9.30am
- Interviews – Cargo Hold Restaurant – Sunday, March 20th at 10.00am.
- Semi Finals: uShaka Wet n Wild – Saturday, April 2nd at 10.00am.
- Gala Event: Dolphin Stadium, Sea World – The Dairymaid Miss, Mr and Miss Junior uShaka – Saturday, April 30th at 19.00pm. Tickets can be purchased online through uShaka ticketing at a cost of R150.
Cost to enter this competition is just R25 and entry forms are available online at www.ushakamarineworld.co.za or contact Shaun Mbatha during office hours on (031) 328 8000 for any queries.
