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| Miss World Zimbabwe, Emily Tatanga Kachote (centre), flanked by First Princess Annie Grace Mutambu (left) and Second Princess Chengetai Marcia Kanonhuwa (right). |
In a statement released yesterday, the Miss Zimbabwe executive board said Kachote had violated the rules and regulations governing the pageant.
"The Miss Zimbabwe executive board would like to inform the nation that it has resolved to dethrone Miss Emily Kachote as Miss World Zimbabwe 2015. Early this month one of the local tabloids carried a story, which alleged that Miss Emily Kachote's nu`de photos had appeared on a WhatsApp group.
"This report came shortly after Miss Emily had confessed that she had once posed nu`de.
"This was in violation of the rules and regulations governing the Trust which all the contestants appended their signatures to."
Miss World Zimbabwe Trust regulation number five reads: "Winners of the Miss Word Zimbabwe beauty pageant, whether a title holder or a runner-up must not have posed nu`de professionally or socially in all forms of media.
"Being in a relationship, sexual advances towards anyone and any behaviour categorised as immoral by the Miss Zimbabwe Trust is grounds for instant disqualification and dethronement.
"It should be noted that during the scouting and the preceding boot camp all aspiring models appended their signatures to these regulations and undertook to abide by them.
"The confession by Miss Emily Kachote that she once posed nu`de and her admission of the existence of the photos led the Trust to dethrone her since her conduct was a precise violation of rules governing the Trust.
"The First Princess Miss Annie Grace Mutambu has since replaced Miss Emily Kachote. In its quest to have a probity queen the Trust will not hesitate to effect its rules and regulations governing it," read the statement.
Emily Kachote has faced the same fate that befell her predecessor Thabiso Phiri, who was dethroned after a similar scandal last year.
Annie Grace Mutambu will represent Zimbabwe at Miss World 2015 to be held on December 19 at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China where reigning queen Rolene Strauss of South Africa will crown her successor.