Face of Africa Modeling Competition Stunner Poised to Conquer Fashion World.Entertainment Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and on Business Wire's Web site at www.businesswire.com 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 A dream came true Saturday night in South Africa's Good Hope Centre in Cape Town, when Nombulelo Mazibuko of South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. won the M-Net Face of Africa 2000 modeling competition. As the program's third annual winner, Ms. Mazibuko is now launched into a glittering international modeling career with a $150,000 contract with Elite Model Management in 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 , where she will arrive in Fall 2000. The regal six-foot seventeen-year-old Capetonian beauty was chosen from among sixteen regional finalists from the following countries: Burundi, Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda. The winner was chosen by seven distinguished judges--1998 Face of Africa winner Oluchi, John Casablancas John Casablancas (born December 22, 1942) is a successful entrepreneur who founded, and was the former Chairman of, the Elite Model Agency Group. He also founded the world's largest modeling school, John Casablancas modeling and career center. , Founder and Honorary Chairman of Elite Model Management, and designers Errol Arendz, Xuly Bet, Stephane Rolland of Paris's Jean-Louis Scherrer fashion house, Katoucha, and Karim Tassi. On being named winner, the teary-eyed beaming Nombulelo whispered, "This really is a dream that has come true for me. It will change my life. And I am so proud and excited to follow in the footsteps of Benvinda and Oluchi," she said, referring to the competition's first two winners. Four months after arriving in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. in 1998, Oluchi appeared on the cover of Italian Vogue. Since then, she has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey “Oprah” redirects here. For the show, see The Oprah Winfrey Show. Oprah Gail Winfrey (born January 29, 1954) is the American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated talk show in television history. Show, been photographed repeatedly by Steven Meisel and Richard Avedon Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American photographer. Avedon was able to take his early success in fashion photography and expand it into the realm of fine art. Photography career Avedon was born in New York City to a Jewish-Russian family. , and was named one of the top four runway models in America by Vogue. Within a month of her arrival in New York in January 2000, last year's winner, Benvinda Mundenge, appeared on the cover of Women's Wear Daily Women's Wear Daily (WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal sometimes called "the bible of fashion."[1][2] It is the flagship journal of Fairchild Publications, Inc.[3] WWD's publisher is Ralph Erardy, Sr. and has found her modeling bookings skyrocketing. The brainchild of M-Net, the African continent's largest subscription television broadcaster, The M-Net Face of Africa 2000 final competition was broadcast to 30 million viewers in forty-two countries throughout the continent. Lazarus Zim, Managing Director of M-Net said, "The project is aimed at promoting African talent. In the process it creates opportunity for a dialogue about Africa. We believe there are many more young African beauties waiting to be discovered and brought into the global limelight." The Face of Africa 2000 competition final is being presented in association with South African-based Anglogold, the world's largest gold producer. M-Net is currently in negotiations with various cablecasters in the United States to broadcast this year's competition later in the summer. Check www.newstream.com Tuesday, April 18 for streaming video. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.041700/bw1 |
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