Miss South Africa, Rolene Strauss, was delegated Miss World on Sunday in a rival in London.
“South Africa, this is for you,” she said in a meeting after the event. “I’m so glad for you and I’m pleased to be your agent.”
Strauss won the title over runner-up Miss Hungary, Edina Kulcsár. Strauss, a fourth-year medical student at University of the Free State, put her studies on hold in the wake of being delegated Miss South Africa in March. She inherited the crown from Miss World 2013 Megan Young of the Philippines