At the prestigious gala evening held tonight at the world renowned Pinnacle Point Golf & Beach Resort the 23 year old Zonke Frans (centre) from knysna was crowned as Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011. The first Princess is the 21year old  Chanieël du Plessis (left) from Mossel Bay and second Princess is Tracey-Anne Buckley(right) aged 23 also from  Mossel Bay,

Congratulations to the 12 Finalists of Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011.

The Judges had a tough time on Monday selecting 12 finalists out of allthe entries for the Miss. Garden Route and Klein Karoo competition.

Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo will be crowned on 1 October

Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo will be crowned on 1 October at the world renowned Pinnacle Point Golf & Beach Estate.   The eminent lead singer Nicholis Louw will be performing at the Gala event!  Along with him well-known (Pasella TV presenter) Eloise Cupido,  who will act upon as MC. Willie Venter (Famous for You-Showcase) will be conducting the choreography, Natasha Sutherland’s (author and actor), previous Miss SA’s and other surprise guests in support of the plight of battered women and children all over the Southern Cape!!
Tickets at only R150.00 per person are available at Computicket or contact Tryana Potgieter on 044
6067777 or send an e-mail to tryana@gardenroutecasino.co.za

Photos are display in no specific order.

Donique Leonard Mossel Bay, 19 Years

Vujiseka Koppies Mossel Bay, 24 Years

Zandri Blom Riversdale, 18 Years

Mandie Bartlett Mossel Bay,18 Years

Blanche Jacobs Oudtshoorn, 24 Years

Zonke Frans Knysna, 23 years

Francisca Simerie Oudtshoorn, 19 Years

Mary Ann Majola George, 19 Years

Lilian Jonker Mossel Bay, 20 Years

Tracey-Anne Buckley Mossel Bay, 23 Years

Chanieël du Plessis Mossel Bay, 21 years

Jody Calitz George, 26 Years

The Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo is a well known community driven beauty pageant in the Garden Route and is in aid of regional shelters for battered and abused  woman.

This year’s finalists were announced last night at the Garden Route Casino Hotel in Mossel Bay. The 12 finalists all equally deserving to carry he title of Miss Garden Route 2011.

Lalakoi wishes them all good Luck.

Back left to right:
Blanche Jacobs (24) Oudtshoorn,  Francisca Simerie (19)  Oudtshoorn, Vujiseka Koppies(24) Mossel Bay,
Zonke Frans (23)Knysna, Mary-Ann Majola (19) George, Chanieël du Plessis (21) Mossel Bay,
Donique Leonard (19) Mossel Bay, Lilian Jonker (20) Mossel Bay, Zandri Blom (18) Riversdal,

Front Row:
Tracey-Anne Buckley (23) Mossel Bay, Jody Calitz (26) George, Mandy Bartlett, (18) Mossel Bay

(PHOTO Christelle Kleynhans – CK Photography)

This prestige gala event is known for 7 years in the area for being one of the largest and best known beauty pageants in the Southern Cape. The Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo offers quality finalists.

The Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 will be crowned during a prestige gala event on 1 October 2011 at the world renowned Pinnacle Point Golf and Beach Estate.

Guests to the gala event will be entertained by well known singer, Nicholis Louw and Eloise Cupido (Pasella TV Presenter)  will act as MC.

Our journalist will be covering the crowning of Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 on Saturday 1 October 2011.

Tickets at only R150.00 per person are available at Computicket or contact Tryana Potgieter on 044
6067777 or send an e-mail to tryana@gardenroutecasino.co.za

Two Mossel Bay fashion designers will be in the run for the Designer of the Year title at the Miss Garden Route & Klein Karoo 2011 pageant at the gala evening planned for 1 October at the Pinnacle Point Beach and Golf Resort. The rest of the lineup consists of a designer from Great Brak, two from George and one from Uniondale. The six designers from the Southern Cape region will each design two outfits to dress the 12 finalists for the grand finale of the pageant.

(PHOTO: Denise Lloyd)

Four of the designers that will take part in the Designers Competition, which forms part of the Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 project, recently showcased some of their designs. Here they are with models showing off the beautiful garments. Seated are:Thabo Direko (second from right) from KwaNonqaba in Mossel Bay,  Mariëtte Hankey from Wilderness and Juan-Loui Venter from Uniondale. The models are (from left): Ntombie Princess  from Mossel Bay (in Susan Moodie’s designs), and Penelope Dimba from Mossel Bay (in Thabo’s design), Juvani du Toit from George (in Mariëttte’s designs),  Patience Dlamini from Mossel Bay (Susan Moodie design),  Zizipho Nzima from Mossel Bay (in a Juan-Loui design) and Tilana Burger from George (Mariëtte Hankey design)

A new resident, Thabo Direko, is originally from Parys in the Free State. He is a creative designer who has now based himself in Mossel Bay. Thabo got involved in the Miss KwaNonqaba pageant and was noticed by our own Mr Western Cape 2011, Vuyo Mfumbe. Thabo now makes sure that Vuyo steals the limelight wherever he performs.

The second Mossel Bay designer is Susan Moodie, who was also one of the designers at the 2010 competition. Susan has an African flair and makes sure that her models look stunning in her African inspired creations.

Bianca Boshoff is a young designer from Great Brak River. She also took part in last year’s competition.

One of the George designers is Jeanine Barnard who designed the dress worn by last year’s winner Marizanne Visser at the gala evening. She loves playing with colour and designs inspired by nature.

A brand new resident to the Southern Cape, Mariëtte Hankey is an experienced lecturer in fashion design. She and her family moved to Wilderness and she has just opened The Fashion Design Training Studio in George. Mariëtte has for many years designed and supplied clothing under her own label: Martezi.

Juan-Loui from Uniondale also took part last year. He moved from Pretoria to Uniondale and specializes in romantic, elegant and very feminine fashions. “The more expensive the material, the better” he added.

What makes the competition so special is that the designers have only five days to complete two outfits. Each designer will draw the names of two finalists on the Monday before the pageant. Up till then they will have no idea of who they will be designing for. The basic outfits can be made up, but they will only be able to take the measurements on that evening. The designers will then have to make and fit the garments for the grand finale within five days.

The winning designer will walk away with the title as well as a cash prize of R5 000 sponsored by Die Burger. A feature on the winning designer will also be published.

The Master of Ceremonies for the gala evening is Eloise Cupido. She will be joined on stage by the special artist, Nicholas Louw. An array of celebs will also rub shoulders with the guests and finalist. Natasha Sutherland and Sandra Prinsloo only two of the ladies that have pledged their support for this project.

Tickets at R150 each are available from Computicket. For more information call Tryana Potgieter on 044 606 777 or mail her on tryana@gardenroutecasino.co.za

Most women love jewellery – and if it is something exclusive, the attraction becomes even more.

Nichole Maritz from Mossel Bay with designs from the Mark E Collections. The winner of the Miss Garden Route & Klein Karoo 2011 title will walk away with an exclusively designed pendant. The winner of the safe house make-over competition will also receive a pendant. (Photo DENISE LLOYD)

Jewellery designer, Mark E has donated a specially designed piece to the winner of the Miss Garden Route & Klein Karoo competition.

During the past few years, local jewellery designer, Mark E has donated a specially designed piece to the winner of the Miss Garden Route & Klein Karoo competition. This year, Mark Furness will once again honour the beautiful girl with one of their designs. As an addition the winner of the safe house make-over competition will also receive an exclusive piece of jewellery.

The Furness family, who are the owners of the exclusive Mark E Design label, have been in the jewellery industry since 1903.  Bardins Jewellers, one of the country’s oldest family jewellery firms, was formed in Mossel Bay during that year. Almost a century later the Mark E Design label was born from the Bardins stable. Today Bardins is still a family business with several branches in the Southern Cape.

At Mark E they believe that jewellery should be the extension of a woman’s personality and that it should emphasise her natural beauty.

According to Mr Mark Furness, who is one of the designers at Mark E, it is an absolute privilege to design something special for Miss Garden Route & Klein Karoo.  “We strive to  capture the essence of each of the women that wear our jewellery” he said. During the past eight years the winners have all made their mark in the beauty and modelling industry.

Each piece of jewellery designed at Mark E is done exclusively to the needs and preferences of the owner. This is done by the chief designer, Ms Sue Furness. This lady is a jewellery expert and loves to wear beautiful designs. She has more than 40 experience in the industry and her exclusive designs are worn by some of the country’s best known and influential women.

Her son Mark is in the process of stepping up to her and he already has his own range, the Mark Edgar Collection. He subscribes to his mother and his grandmother’s philosophy  that jewellery should be worn and not be kept in a safe or drawer somewhere.

Enter for Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 now.

Unmarried ladies, without children, between the ages of 18 and 26 may enter this year’s search for Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011. Entry forms are available from the tourism bureaux as well as from the Garden Route Casino and online

For details contact Tryana Potgieter on 044 606 7777 or send her a mail at tryana@gardenroutecasino.co.za

Since Jenny Zhang won the 2005 Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo title she became an international model featuring on the covers of many international magazines! Some of these include the Dutch ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Seventeen and various local covers including Cape Wedding Guide, Cape Ect,  Cavendish Mall Guide and Taste.

Former Miss Garden Route has done Adverts World-Wide

This 25 year model at Outlaws Models in Cape Town has been part of the Cape Town fashion week and has done adverts for European as well as American clients. Some of them include Nokia, Old Mutual TV ad, Las Vegas Resort ad, Renault car TV ad in Europe and Certina Watch and Education First.

Entry form for Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo are now available online  at the Miss. Garden Route Blog or right here.                       Click below on the image to get you entry form for this prestigious event.

The rules of the competition will be on the entry forms.

Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011

The Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 beauty pageant  in aid of regional shelter for battered and abuse women, was officially launched at the beginning of June by last year’s winner a Georgian beauty, Marizaan Visser (now a committed LLB(Law) student at Stellenbosch University).

Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo presented by the Garden Route Casino

During the past 7 years the Miss Garden route and Klein Karoo presented by the Garden Route Casino in collaboration with Die Burger and The ISP Group has grown into a community driven event, combating women and child abuse within the Southern Cape.

Garden Route and Klein Karoo Tourism Face will be Crowned on 1 October 2011

The “new” tourism face for the Garden Route and Klein Karoo  will be crowned on 1 October 2011 at the world renowned Pinnacle Point Golf and Beach Estate near Mossel Bay.   We are overjoyed to announce that eminent lead singer Nicholis Louw will be performing at the Gala event!  Along with him well-known (Pasella TV presenter) Eloise Cupido,  who will act upon as MC. Willie Venter (Famous for You-Showcase) will be conducting the choreography, Natasha Sutherland’s (author and actor), previous Miss SA’s and other surprise guests in support of the plight of battered women and children all over the Southern Cape!!

Shelters for Abused Women and Children in the South Cape Benefit from Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 Beauty Pageant

The “Heart” of the Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 beauty pageant  is the four shelters for abused women and children in the South Cape that benefit from the funds generated by this pageant.
The “Body” of the pageant is the public who support this project.  Apart from money raised by ticket sales for the gale evening, donations are also very welcome.

Enter the Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 Beauty Pageant

Undiscovered beauties have the opportunity to enter the “tourism face” competition (Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 beauty pageant ) winning over R2 000 000 worth of prizes.  Obtain an entry form from the Guest Relations desk or the following tourism bureaux;  Mossel Bay, George, Wilderness, Knysna, Oudtshoorn, Still Bay and Plettenberg Bay.

For more information on Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo contact Tryana Potgieter at the Garden Route Casino in Mossel Bay.  For Contact details click here

The Miss Garden Route and Klein Karoo 2011 beauty pageant  in aid of regional shelter for battered and abuse women, was officially launched at the beginning of June by last year’s winner a Georgian beauty, Marizaan Visser (now a committed LLB(Law) student at Stellenbosch University).

George skoonhede maak skoonskip by gala-funksie van die Mej. Garden Route en Klein Karoo-Kompetisie

Drie meisies van George het Saterdagaand skoonskip gemaak tydens die gala-funksie van die Mej Garden Route & Klein Karoo–kompetisie wat by Pinnacle Point Strand- en Gholflandgoed op Mosselbaai gehou is. Die pragtige donkerkop Marizanne Visser (18), ‘n matriekleerling aan die Hoërskool Outeniqua het met die kroon weggeloop. Haar prinsesse is (links) Venessa Niklaus (21) ‘n student aan die Nelson Mandela Metropool Universiteit, wat tweede was en Stephnay Saayman (22) wat as die tweede prinses gekroon is.
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Marizanne Visser gekroon as Mej. Garden Route en Klein Karoo en ook aangewys  as Mej. Fotogenies

Marizanne is ook as Mej Fotogenies aangewys en Stepnay as Mej Liefdadigheid. Lillian Jonker van Mosselbaai is deur die 12 finaliste as Mej Persoonlikheid gekroon.

Verskillende glans personlikhede  het die gaste by Mej.Garden Route en Klein Karoo vermaak.

‘n Uitstekende produksie, gechoreografeer deur Willie Venter van Huisgenoot Skouspel-faam is rondom die finaliste en kunstenaars, wat Tobi Cronje, Juill Middlekop, George Longane en On Que ingesluit het, gebou.Verskeie glanspersoonlikhede insluitend Wilma van der Bijl (Mej SA 1987), Brumilda van Rensburg, Dieter Voigt (Mnr SA), Natasha Sutherland en Debrah Robertson (Mej Earth 2010 naaswenner) was onder die beoordelaars en gaste.

Die skoonheidskompetisie vorm jaarliks deel van ‘n projek wat daarop gemik is om fondse in te samel vir die mishandelde vroue en kinders in die Suid-Kaap. Vier Veilige Huise in Mosselbaai, Oudtshoorn, George en Knysna vind baat by hierdie projek. Vier finaliste word ook vir elke skuiling gekies op grond van hul groei en ontwikkeling rondom bemagtiging. Die wenner van hierdie kompetisie is ook Saterdgaand aangewys. Sy is Janine Rossouw van Malibongwe Veilige Huis op Oudtshoorn.