Sonia Raciti Oshry is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who won
Miss South Africa
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1998. She was the official representative of
South Africa
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to the
48th Miss Universe pageant pageant held in
Chaguaramas,
Trinidad and Tobago
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on May 26, 1999, where she ended up as the 4th runner-up. She went on to represent South Africa in the
49th Miss World pageant held in
London
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,
England
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,
UK on December 4, 1999, where she finished as the 2nd Runner-up. Raciti also won the Africa's Queen of Beauty Award during the Miss World contest.
She has recently served as both a judge and mentor in the Miss South Africa pageants.
References
Living people
Miss South Africa winners
Miss Universe 1999 contestants
Miss World 1999 delegates
Year of birth missing (living people)
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