Photo credit: Thabo Nyembe
Thobile Steyn who recently passed over the crown to new reigning queen Miss Soweto 2021 Ludina Ngwenya, shared some highlights during her reign and says that giving back has been her most fulfilling experience, which she will cherish and continue to undertake. Steyn said she will forever be grateful for the opportunity and one of the best things that this opportunity has brought is that her love for helping and doing the best for others became so much easier. Her successes during the journey includes projects such as her school shoe drive, motivating young girls who aspire to be in pageants and undertaking sanitary towel drives.
Photo credit: Thabo Nyembe
Steyn shared that while she enjoyed her reign, her biggest challenge was trying to complete her Honours degree while doing her Miss Soweto duties. She says she managed to conquer this and pass with flying colours all thanks to the support of her loved ones.
Thobile hopes to continue on with a lot of initiatives such as career guidance so that she can help provide more skills to the people of Soweto and to continue assisting students with registering at a higher institution of learning. Another project she hopes will become a success is her current #EndGenerationalStigma Mental health awareness project. She hopes this project shines a light on the issues of mental health among young people in Soweto and hopefully prevent any future suicide attempts from occurring. Thobile says she is considering doing more pageants in the future and the best is still yet to come.
