‘I'm A Daddy's Girl!'
Drum English|5 December 2019
Miss SA Zozi Tunzi can count on her proud father’s support as she gets ready for Miss Universe
Gabisile Ngcobo
‘I'm A Daddy's Girl!'

WHEN she steps onto the stage at the Miss Universe pageant she can be sure of one thing: her beloved father will be there cheering her on every elegant step of the way.

To Miss SA Zozibini Tunzi, her dad, Lungisa, is many things: a devoted chauffeur, her biggest fan, her rock. He’s been her unfailing pillar of support since she was a little girl taking part in her first pageant and he’s here today as she chats to us in her stylish Sandton apartment.

“I’m always there for her,” says Lungisa (55), who works in the department of higher education and training in Pretoria.

And Zozi (26) wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’m a daddy’s girl,” she says.

Lungisa will never forget the day his daughter’s name was called out on the night of the Miss SA pageant in August.

“I recorded the show and often replay it to remind myself how incredible it was.”

Now he’s hoping her name will ring out again in the early hours of Monday 9 December if she’s announced as the new Miss Universe.

Lungisa and Philiswa, Zozi’s school principal mom, will be in the audience at the pageant, which will take place in Atlanta in the United States. And even if she doesn’t win, the achievement of competing on a world stage is enough to make this dad’s heart light with love.

IT’S hard to believe the dazzling young woman seated before us with poise and exuding such charm was cripplingly shy as a little girl.

In a bid to boost her confidence, her parents persuaded her to enter her first beauty pageant when she was just six years old.

“You can’t be anything in this world if you don’t have confidence,” Lungisa says.

Little Zozi took to pageants like a duckling to water – she won her first contest and has been taking part in pageants ever since.

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