Anneline Kriel

Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) is a South African actress, model, and beauty queen. She won Miss South Africa and Miss World in 1974 after the UK's Helen Morgan resigned only four days after her victory. Kriel is the second South African woman to hold the title of Miss World after Penelope Coelen in 1958. Since then, she has worked as a model, an actress, and an artist.

Career

Kriel was nineteen years old when she became Miss World in 1974. This was during a tumultuous period in South African history because of the continued international boycott of South Africa due to the apartheid system. As a result, she sometimes received criticism from international media, which depicted her as a face of the apartheid regime. In support of the boycott, the United Kingdom and Australia refused to accept her as part of the obligatory world tour of the Miss World pageant.

Welsh singer Shirley Bassey (one of the contest judges) also protested against her receiving the award. However, the United States later relented, and Kriel was allowed to make television appearances in the country. In South Africa, her victory at the contest received a rapturous response from both the public and local media.A Race Apart: the beauty queens of the apartheid era
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Upon finishing her term as Miss World, Kriel worked in advertisement and modeling.

Thereafter, she became an ambassador for several beauty brands, completing public relations activities and studying drama at the University of Pretoria.Where is former Miss World Anneline Kriel today?
The Citizen She has also starred in several Afrikaans-language films, soap operas, stage plays and the internationally successful film, ''Kill and Kill Again'' which debuted at #2 at the US Box Office.

In 1981, Kriel released the pop single "He Took Off My Romeos"

In 2017, the Krugerrand-studded dress that Kriel had worn as her National dress was put on public display at the Prins and Prins Diamonds Museum of Gems & Jewellery in Cape Town.

In 2018, Kriel added another evening gown to the exhibition that she wore on the evening of the Miss World Pageant in 1974. The dress is also displayed at the Prins and Prins Diamonds Museum of Gems & Jewellery.

In 2018, Kriel attended the sixtieth Anniversary Celebration of the Miss South African pageant in Pretoria.

On 7 September 2019, Kriel was a guest speaker at the annual upgrade of the Witkruis monument between Mokopane (Potgietersrus) and Polokwane (Pietersburg) in South Africa.

To date, she has appeared on the cover of Huisgenoot magazine 33 times.

Personal life

Kriel was born in Pretoria to an Afrikaner family and was raised in the mining town of Witbank, the daughter of a prison officer. She has two siblings. They finished their education at Hoërskool Generaal Hertzog.

As a student, Kriel lived in Huis Asterhof (formerly Vergeet-my-nie) while studying drama at the University of Pretoria. Kriel made one film called "Somer". She also made a television short story in Afrikaans called "Storieboekmoord". While at university, she became Rag Queen, won the Miss Northern Transvaal Competition, and entered the Miss South African competition. In 1974, she won the Miss South Africa and Miss World titles (after initially holding second place) when Helen Morgan of the UK stepped down after just four days.

In March 1976, Kriel's nude photographs were leaked, photographs in which that she willingly posed for and appeared in the media and on the front page of the ''Sunday Times''. Roy Hilligenn took the photographs and sold them to a British newspaper.

Kriel retired from being Miss World and later became a fashion model and worked in Italy for five years. She worked as the Birra Peroni model in television and magazine ads. She also worked as a model in Paris and New York with Johnny Casablanca Model Management Agency. Kriel learned to speak some French and Italian from these experiences.

Kriel returned to South Africa from New York to marry Sol Kerzner in 1980. They divorced five years later. Kriel converted to Judaism in Switzerland under the supervision of Rabbi Mordechai Piron, then the rabbi of the Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ), the largest Jewish congregation in Switzerland. Later in 1989, she married the millionaire horse breeder Philip Tucker in Johannesburg, where they lived and had two children; Tayla and Witney. They divorced five years later, in 1994.

On 28 March 1996, Kriel married Peter Bacon, Kerzner's CEO and former protegé. The couple currently resides in Mauritius.

Kriel and Sol Kerzner sought an interdict against Jonathan Ball Publishers Ltd. and Allan Breenblo over Breenblo's ''Kerzner Unauthorised'', an unauthorised biography of Kerzner. They claimed that the content would infringe on their reputations.

In 2007, Kriel, a Goldin family friend, attended the murder trials for the killers of actor Brett Goldin and fashion designer Richard Bloom.

In 2017, Kriel suggested that then-President of South Africa Jacob Zuma face charges of crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court for failing to protect farmers in South Africa.

Filmography

References

External links

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1955 births
Living people
People from Witbank
South African female models
South African film actresses
South African soap opera actresses
Miss World winners
Miss World 1974 delegates
Miss South Africa winners
South African beauty pageant winners
Converts to Judaism
University of Pretoria alumni
Afrikaner Jews
South African people of German descent
South African Jews