ADVISORY/Photo of Face of Africa 2000 contest winner Nombulelo Mazibuko is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/Business/Entertainment/Fashion Editors & Writers ADVISORY... --(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE) The photo is BW1 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wires Web Site at http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.041700/bw1 Photo caption reads: CAPE TOWN Cape Town or Capetown, city (1991 pop. 854,616), legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape, a port on the Atlantic Ocean. It was the capital of Cape Province before that province's subdivision in 1994. , South Africa--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)-- April 17, 2000 FACE OF AFRICA Africa (ăf`rĭkə), second largest continent (1997 est. pop. 743,000,000), c.11,677,240 sq mi (30,244,050 sq km) including adjacent islands. Broad to the north (c.4,600 mi/7,400 km wide), Africa straddles the equator and stretches c. MODELING COMPETITION WINNER CHOSEN: SOUTH AFRICAN African pertaining to or originating in Africa. African buffalo includes black Cape buffalo, red Congo buffalo and red-brown varieties from Abyssinia to Niger. See also buffalo. NOMBULELO MAZIBUKO, 17, EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of TO CONQUER FASHION WORLD -- A dream came true Saturday night for 17-year-old Capetonian Nombulelo Mazibuko, when she was named the M-Net Face of Africa 2000 competition winner during a live television broadcast from Cape Town's Good Hope Centre. As the program's third annual winner, the six-foot-tall Ms. Mazibuko is now launched into a glittering glit·ter n. 1. A sparkling or glistening light. 2. Brilliant or showy, often superficial attractiveness. 3. Small pieces of light-reflecting decorative material. intr.v. international modeling career with a $150,000 contract with Elite Model Management in New York, where she will arrive in Fall 2000. Competition sponsor M-Net is the African continent's largest subscription television broadcaster, available in 42 African countries. Photo: Cobus Bodenstein. (Business Wire photo) CONTACT: P&F Communications, New York, Andrew Conn/Harry Watson, 212/861-2100. See BW1043 (M-NET/FACE-OF-AFRICA-2000) that ran earlier today for more information. |
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