Miss Universe Botswana 2013 Tsaone Macheng

OHMYGOSSIP — Tsaone Macheng (born in 1993) is beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Botswana 2013, the official representative of Botswana to the Miss Universe 2013 pageant.

Tsaone Macheng who currently resides in Port Elizabeth, South Africa studied fine arts at Prestine College.

Tsaone Macheng emerged as the winner of the Miss Universe Botswana title after winning a pageant held in Gaborone International Conference Center on September 7th. Benah Sekgabo was declared as first runner-up while the second runner-up was Boitumelo Kanedi. Tsaone will represent Botswana, a nation that won the Miss Universe title in 1999, at Miss Universe 2013 pageant which is to be held in Moscow this November 10th.

Miss Universe 2013 will be the 62nd Miss Universe pageant. It will be held on November 9, 2013 at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia. Olivia Culpo, Miss Universe 2012 from the USA will crown her successor at the end of the event. This will be the first time Russia will host. The pageant will be televised on NBC and Telemundo.

Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers. The contest was founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills. The pageant became part of Kayser-Roth and then Gulf and Western Industries, before being acquired by Donald Trump in 1996. In 1998, Miss Universe changed its name from Miss Universe, Inc. to Miss Universe Organization and the headquarters moved from Long Beach California, to New York City that year. Donald Trump brought in a new team of professionals to the contest headed by its new CEO, Molly Miles, and president Maureen Reidy. The contest would use the slogan “Redefined for Today” for promotion of the pageants.

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Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (Tswana: Lefatshe la Botswana), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens refer to themselves as “Batswana” (singular: Motswana). Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966. It has held uninterrupted democratic elections since independence.

Botswana is flat, and up to 70% is covered by the Kalahari Desert. It is bordered by South Africa to the south and southeast, Namibia to the west and north, and Zimbabwe to the northeast. Its border with Zambia to the north near Kazungula, Zambia is poorly defined but at most is a few hundred metres long.

A mid-sized country of just over two million people, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Botswana was one of the poorest countries in Africa when it gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966, with a GDP per capita of about US$70. Botswana has since transformed itself, becoming one of the fastest-growing economies in the world to a GDP (purchasing power parity) per capita of about $14,000, and a high gross national income, possibly the fourth-largest in Africa, giving the country a modest standard of living.[6] The country also has a strong tradition as a representative democracy and has the second highest Human Development Index of continental Sub-Saharan African countries.

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