Jessica Nel (25), the newly crowned Miss Earth South Africa 2024, is a passionate advocate for sustainable fashion.
She is a Graphic Designer and Social Media Manager by profession.
Nel is an overachiever, with national colours for choir, she is also a drum majorette star and has advanced diving skills, with a licence.
She is adventurous, enjoys horse-riding, sky-diving and deep sea-diving amongst her favourite hobbies.
The 25-year-old beauty is flanked by Joy Magagula, a lawyer from Cape Town, Justine Munusamy of Ekurhuleni and Thembisile Mathebula of Johannesburg who is an art student whose passion for art and sustainability is pulpable.
The National Finalists and Winners were spoilt with gifts and treatments from Skin Renewal, Europa Art, Lanza by Bloom brands, Crystal Forum provided customised gifts for the evening as well as gorgeous CrystalPJewellery for the finalists, judges and winners.
Padel sessions from 10×20 Padel Courts, Cinema tickets for the year from Cine Centre, magnificent flower bouquets from Lou Lou D, Treatments from Astro Spa, Silverlining gumboots, gifts from Panier Des Sens, Perfumes from Bach and Co. and David Green Eyewear, Gifts from C-Spa, Iwori Products and Nestle also filled their gift bags.
The winner receives luggage from Samsonite and will be flown to the 2024 International Miss Earth event by Cathay Pacific, their international airline partner.
The international event will be staged in Manila, Philippines on November 9, 2024.
African Anthology has been a long-standing partner of this leadership programme and hosted finalists at Kubu in Hoedspruit earlier this year, with a keen focus on conservation and wildlife preservation.
GebCo 3sixty and Wildroute Environmental have been proud greening partners to the organisation and alongside Servest, Newsclip Media Monitoring and SAPPI.
The gala dinner hosted by Southern Sun was beautifully executed with eventing partners such as 321 Systems, Over The Top Eventing, Two-Way Exhibition and Events and world class jazz entertainment by George Sax. Finalists make-up was done by students of Face2Face International Beauty and Make-Up Academy and hair was done by ‘Hair In Stoffels Chair’ and Lanza.
Picture: Zama Mbatha; Former Winner 2023; Catherine Constantinides; Kayan Leung Former Winner; Jessica Nel, Miss Earth South Africa 2024; Candy Tothill, Head of Marketing at Southern Sun; Joy Magagula, Runner Up; Justine Munusamy, Second Runner Up; Thembi Mathebula, Third Runner Up; Duduzile Mbobo, Former Winner 2023.
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