Miss Heritage 2014 Explained

Winner:Odessa Mae Tadaya
Represented:
Date:December 20, 2014
Venue:Silver Star Hotel and Casino, Johannesburg, South Africa[1]
Entrants:42
Placements:10
Before:2013
Next:2015

Miss Heritage 2014 was the second Miss Heritage pageant, held at the Silver Star Hotel and Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 20, 2014.

Shequera Grace King[2] of The Bahamas crowned Odessa Mae Tadaya[3] of the Philippines at the end of the event.

Results

Placements

PlacementContestant
Miss Heritage 2014
  • – Odessa Mae Tadaya
1st Runner-Up
2nd Runner-Up
  • – Katlego Gaotsenelelwe[4]
3rd Runner-Up
  • – Kgomotso Caroline Angel Pilane
4th Runner-Up
  • – Jennifer Hunt

Continental Queens

ContinentContestant
Miss Heritage Africa
Miss Heritage Asia
Miss Heritage Europe
Miss Heritage South America
Miss Heritage North America

Contestants

Country Contestant Age Hometown
AlgeriaNassima Marwa Aid 23 Algeria
ArgentinaSofia Pomo 21 Argentina
AustraliaJennifer Hunt 25 New South Wales
BangladeshFatimatu Zohra Etisha 20 Dhaka
BelizeJessel Lauriano 26 Belize
BelgiumJennifer Den Haese Belgium
BotswanaKatlego Gaotsenelelwe 20 Gaborone
BelarusIana Fedoseeva 20 Tula
Cameroon Florence Épée Ngasse21 Yaounde
Mishela Batista27 Canarias Espana
Skrylkova Ekaterina20 Tula
EcuadorMaria Jose Otavalo Quizhpe 18 Cuenca
Ethiopia23 Addis Ababa
GhanaZina Asiedu 26 Accra
GuadeloupeAnaïs Modeste 18 Trois-Rivières
IcelandUnnur Zodiak18 Iceland City
IndiaAvneet Kaur Arora19 New Delhi
IndonesiaRakhmi Wijiharti 21 Semarang
ItalyOlga Matsyana 24 Rome
Reine Victoire Aka 21 Abidjan
KyrgyzstanRannat Aitalieva 25 Kyrgyzstan
LebanonMirna Olleik 28 Beirut
MauritiusDona Charun 21 Port Louis
MexicoAndrea Celeste Chiapas
MoroccoSaloua Bouchaib[6] 28 Marrakesh
NamibiaMagdelena Weef Geaorge 20 Windhoek
New ZealandPaige Thiyagarajah 21 Auckland
NetherlandsJoyce Jansen Netherlands
NigeriaKehinde Mojisola 22 Lagos
PolandNatalia Janoszek 24 Bielsko-Biała
PortugalRaquel Fonte 22 Lisbon
PhilippinesOdessa Mae Tadaya 18 Guimba
RomaniaBurca Monica 27 Bucharest
Kristina Kuzovnikova 20 Tula
RwandaMarlene Mutoniwase[7] 22 Kigali
SpainLaura Illanas 21 Spain
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Anna La Borde25 Kingstown
South AfricaKgomotso Caroline Angel Pilane
Swaziland Phumzile Thwala[8] 23 Mbabane
United StatesMichelle Cooper 20 San Diego
UgandaAiysha Nagudi[9] 26 Kampala
Pearlynn Dang 18 California
ZambiaTina Shinga 22 Lusaka
ZimbabweTendai Rukwava 25 Harare

Crowned Queens at national pageants

Miss Heritage Rwanda Marlene Mutoniwase was crowned on 20 February at the Miss Rwanda Pageant .[7] [10]

Miss Heritage Swaziland Phumzile Thwala was crowned in September 2013.[11]

Miss Heritage Philippines Odessa Mae Tadaya was crowned as the official delegate for Philippines for Miss Heritage 2014.

Miss Heritage India Avneet Kaur Arora was crowned as the official delegate of India for Miss Heritage 2014.

Heritage Championship events

Ludo-diversity Queen

Ludo Diversity means diversity in games, of all sorts, physical and non physical. Contestants engage into traditional games, from different countries. Traditional games are part of intangible heritage and a symbol of the cultural diversity in the world. They are medium to project and show the great values of solidarity, diversity, inclusiveness and cultural awareness.

Game 1- Iintonga is a South African ancient Indigenous Game.

This game is an ancient game that has been practiced for many centuries in South AfricaTwo fighters go into a ring. Each contestant will be having two plastic form rubber sticks, the attack and the defense stick. The referee blows a whistle to start the game and the fighters try to hit their opponent with their stick, while defending themselves with the defense stick. Points are given due to number of blows that hit the fighter’s body. A referee controls the match and a timekeeper controls the rounds in each bout. A bout consists of three rounds of one minute each.[12]

ResultContestant
Winner
1st runner-up
2nd runner-up

Heritage Cuisine Queen

This competition is a Gift performance show, ie Talent in layman’s terms. It is based on gifts/talents that are Traditional, Heritage themed depending per country. So each contestant shows off her country’s culture through the heritage performance. Contestants shall also be put into two groups’ whereby they are required to produce a 5 minute Drama /Play per group which Portrays World Heritage related Issues.

Winner

1st runner up

2nd runner up

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Int'l pageants . Pageantopolis.com . 2014-04-05 . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20140327000208/http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/inter-national.htm . 2014-03-27 .
  2. Web site: Shequera King in Johannesburg to pass on the Miss Heritage World crown . thebahamasweekly.com . 2015-02-27.
  3. Web site: Odessa Mae Tadaya Crowned Miss Heritage World... | . Felixmanuel.opmbworldwide.com . 2014-12-20 . 2015-02-27.
  4. Web site: Observer . Observer . 2014-12-23 . 2015-02-27.
  5. Web site: http://www.observer.org.sz/the-scene/68841-phumzile-thwala-wins-miss-personality-title.html . December 27, 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141227134020/http://www.observer.org.sz/the-scene/68841-phumzile-thwala-wins-miss-personality-title.html . December 27, 2014 .
  6. Web site: مذيعة ملكة جمال عارضة أزياء ممثلة سلوى سبع صنايع والحظ مش ضايع | جريدة الأنباء الكويتية . Alanba.com.kw . 2014-10-06 . 2015-02-27.
  7. Web site: MISS Rwanda 2014 - Akiwacu Colombe niwe Nyampinga w'u Rwanda 2014 . Missrwanda.rw . 2014-02-22 . 2014-04-05.
  8. Web site: Times Of Swaziland . Times.co.sz . 2013-09-30 . 2015-02-27.
  9. Web site: Miss Tourism Aims For Miss Heritage Crownbigeye.Ug . Bigeye.ug . 2014-04-18 . 2015-02-27.
  10. Web site: Colombe Akiwacu is Miss Rwanda 2014 | The Rwanda Focus . Focus.rw . 2014-02-23 . 2014-04-05.
  11. Web site: Times Of Swaziland . Times.co.sz . 2013-09-30 . 2014-04-05.
  12. Web site: South Africa's ancient art of stick fighting | Public Radio International . Pri.org . 2011-03-30 . 2015-02-27.

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