In my post-pageant "review" of the Miss SA Teen pageant I wrote that the event took place "before a crowd of a few hundred bikini and speedo clad onlookers reeking of Piz Buin and an array of other suntan lotions". What I had wanted to say was "before a crowd of a few hundred bikini and speedo clad onlookers reeking of Piz Buin, cheap wine and stale sex", but decided against it."...spring break activities traditionally include binge drinking, recreational drug use and casual sex...It is common for companies to market during spring break, for instance Coca-Cola, Gillette, MTV, and branches of the United States armed forces." (Wikipedia).
Whilst the above photographs are from events in the USA and not from the Sun City event, I cannot imagine that "Spring Break" would be any different here than it is in the rest of the world. In any event!
Apparently a number of Miss SA Teen parents are up in arms because their daughters were expected to parade before an "unruly hoard of drunken men". In addition, eyebrows are being raised at the results since there were 3 Sun City employees on the panel of judges, and there were no computers at the event yet the results were printed on a sheet of paper and not hand-written.
Could it be a case of sour grapes in some instances? Possibly! Will "bitchin' and moanin'" achieve anything? Probably not! The official response will more than likely be that the girls and their parents knew that the event was being staged during "Spring Break", that they should have known what happens at an event of this nature, and that they should not have signed the entry form in the first place if they had issues with the event.
Go figure!
