SI Miss South Africa Zozibini Tunzi ang kinoronahang Miss Universe 2019 sa Tyler Perry Studios, Atlanta, Georgia, US nitong December 8 (December 9, Manila time).

2019 Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)

2019 Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)

First runner-up naman sina Miss Puerto Rico Madison Anderson at second runner-up si Miss Mexico Sofía Aragón.

Si Zozibini ang unang Miss Universe na makapagsusuot ng Mouawad crown o ang “Power of Unity” crown.

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Sa kanyang closing remarks, iniangat ni Zozibini ang women empowerment: “I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin, and my kind of hair was never considered to be beautiful and I think that it is time that, that stops today. I want children to look at me and see my face and I want them to see their faces reflected in mine.”

Pinalitan ni Miss South Africa si Catriona Cray ng Pilipinas.

Samantala, si Zozibini ang ikatlong Miss South Africa na nakakuha ng korona matapos nina Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters noong 2017, at Margaret Gardiner noong 1978.

-NOREEN JAZUL