The ManicaPost
Morris Mtisi Entertainment Correspondent
‘‘Now the beautiful ones are being born,’’ we can safely advise Ayi Kwei Armah.
Miss Tourism Zimbabwe 2018, Tafadzwa Primrose Jaricha is not just a Creator’s masterpiece. She has more substance in her than beauty contest judges can fathom. She has an amazing depth of character and personality. She models more built-in charm than physical elegance. It is this inside polish and refinement that makes her stand tall and genuinely beautiful.
Talking to MM on Head-to-Head on Diamond FM Radio last Thursday, the proud reigning Miss Tourism 2018 gave God all the credit and honour.
“Before I go on the romp I hand over myself to God,” she said. “He is my Maker and my Creator. I tell Him, If this is mine, Lord thy will be done! And He delivers. God will never deliver a wrong parcel to the wrong person.”
The young lawyer revealed more than her beautiful side. She kept on harping on God and said such had been her lifestyle since she was a little girl. If you are not pleasantly shocked, I am. Many girls who are beautiful, including those who wishfully think and dream they are, full of empty airs and artificial grace. They are haughty, snooty, puffed up. Tafadzwa is humble and down-to-earth. That is what makes her authentically beautiful . . . genuinely attractive.
“I was born into a prayerful family,” she says on radio, stunning every ear of everybody who thinks beautiful ladies do not pray. “My dad passed on when I was four and I was raised by a single parent . . . a hard-working, loving and caring mum. She is the one who saw me through thick and thin. But above all she taught me that God is the pillar . . . all the time, in sickness and in health, in happiness and in misery . . . the list is endless.” She turns to her mother sitting next to her in the studio. And her beautiful fill up with tears. What a moment!
“Everyone is beautiful . . . so long as you believe you are beautiful,” she continues to say continuing to pay no attention to the visible frequencies of love being exchanged naturally and uncontrollably. “Everyone is beautiful . . . so long as you believe you are beautiful,” she repeats. I seriously doubt this obvious untruth, but inwardly struggle to want to believe her. It is a lie every humble and beautiful woman tells knowing no one believes her.
“. . . And that will give you confidence to break walls,” said the beautiful pride of Manicaland and brand ambassador of the Miss Tourism Pageant.
While many eyes may see a face and body good enough to eat, this reporter and certainly other Socratic analysts see more than a simple beautiful girl. Tafadzwa is not empty beautiful porcelain. She has substance. She is not only a stunning pageant model. She is a serious role model who could speak behavioural transformation in girls who emulate substance in their stature and behaviour . . . girls who desire to be focused and serious with their studies and lives before it is too late.
Tafadzwa agreed on radio to come back to the Diamond FM studio and speak life, focus, self-discipline, behavioural sense, moral rearmament and empowerment to our girl learners. Thank you Tafadzwa! See you soon on Head-to-Head with MM. Watch the space!
The beauty queen was accompanied by her mum, Mrs Juliana Chirwire, to Diamond FM Radio. She was at a loss for words about her own daughter whom she all the time tearfully described as listening, humble, intelligent, disciplined and unmistakably God-given.
Manicaland continues to celebrate their own! Miss Tourism Zimbabwe 2018! Kumakomoyo! If we do not loudly and proudly sound our own trumpet, who will? The wise came from the East. Now the most beautiful also come from the East. Who said ‘‘The Beautiful Ones are Not Yet Born?” He was an incorrigible and infernal liar!
