Miss Grand South Africa 2015 was the inaugural edition of the

Miss Grand South Africa Miss Grand South Africa is an annual female beauty pageant in South Africa founded in 2015 by Commonwealth Pageant South Africa, led by Anel de Swardt, aiming to select the country representative to compete in its parent contest Miss Grand Inte ...

beauty pageant, held on September 11, 2015, at the Lyric Theatre in

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amusement park, Johannesburg. Eight candidates, who qualified for the national pageant via an online screening performed earlier in April, competed for the title, and a 22-year-old business student from the province of Free State, Magdalena Lenie Pieterse, was elected the winner, while the

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representative, Danielle Leach, was named the vice-miss. Lenie Pieterse then represented the country at the pageant held in Thailand on October 25 but was unplaced. The event was managed by a Johannesburg-based event organizer chaired by Anel de Swardt, Commonwealth Pageants South Africa (Pty) Ltd. In the same event, the winner of the Mistress category, Rina van Schalkwyk, was also named. She then represented the country at the Mrs. Universe 2017 pageant held in Durban, South Africa, where she was named the third runner-up.

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Miss Grand South Africa official website
on Internet Archive {{Miss Grand International titleholders, state=collapsed Grand South Africa

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

2015 in South Africa