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.

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.”

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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