UPROAR OVER WHITE ZIMBABWEAN BEAUTY PAGEANT : MY THOUGHTS
UPROAR OVER WHITE ZIMBABWEAN BEAUTY PAGEANT : MY THOUGHTS CHIMA **A general discussion about the place of white African citizens on the continent following confected social media outrage—egged on by certain media outlets— over a white Zimbabwean winning a beauty pageant** White South Africans in the city of Cape Town. Despite all the emigrations and racial tensions, there are 4.6 million white South Africans still inside the country and a good number still occupy positions in the military, police, judiciary, parliament and in private business I am not really a fan of beauty pageants. They are hardly of interest to me. But then, I do get drawn to controversies, especially those thriving on various social media platforms, including Twitter. No, Elon Musk, I will never refer to it as “X”. Moving on… Although, I don’t have a personal account there, Twitter is probably the most interesting of all the social media platforms. On Twitter, you can glean a lot of information of varying quality