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The finalist for Miss South Africa 2017. PICTURE: NINESQUARED A DOCTOR, an engineer and a construction company owner - these are just some of the brains vying for the Miss South Africa crown this year. Last night 12 finalists out of 25 semi-finalists of the pageant were announced at a soiree hosted at Room Five in Morningside hosted by former Miss South Africa, Liesl Laurie.  Only three provinces were represented from the nine provinces in the country with Gauteng province dominating with eight beauties, while Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal only had two girls representing their provinces. Gauteng Miss South Africa finalist. PICTURE: NINESQUARED But this year's pageant didn't go off without a glitch as last week, the pageant saw one girl  Lou-Marie Taljaard from Belville in Cape Town, pull out "to focus on her modelling career". "There were rumours going around with the girls about one girl being pitted to the winning so I felt as though I wa...

And these are the 26 beauties hoping to be crowned as the fairest in the land in  the Miss South Africa 2017 beauty pageant to be held in March next year in Sun City. PICTURE: SUPPLIED The Top 26 Miss South Africa semi-finalists – who are vying for the title of Miss South Africa 2017 – have been revealed. And among them are a medical doctor, a speech therapist, several law students, almost engineer, an owner of a construction company and a news reader on Soweto TV. No surprises that two were Miss South Africa finalists (placed in the Top 12) in 2014 and 2015; one was awarded her Protea colours in rhythmic gymnastics at the age of 13 and was a gold medal winner at the All African Championships while another contestant is the daughter of a legendary former Bafana Bafana soccer captain. Miss SA semi-finalists from Gauteng. PICTURE The semi-finalists come from six of the country’s nine provinces: 14 are from Gauteng, six from the Western Cape, three from Kwa-Zulu Natal and ...