Miss Universe Zozibini Tunzi has weighed in on Bianca Schoombee’s controversial tweets and apologized for some of her own old social media posts, Sowetan Live reports!
“Ngokukhulu ukuzithoba, ndicela uxolo (I’m humbling myself and asking for forgiveness). From the bottom of my heart, I am so, so sorry,” Zozibini Tunzi.
“Not a single soul is perfect, not even those who expect you to be. We are all working on being better people. You’ve done a great job at that, and that’s enough. For us all it should be enough,” wrote singer Ami Faku.
The publication also reports that Bianca Schoombee made headlines last week after her racist tweets from 2014 resurfaced and shut the door to her name possibly being mentioned in the Miss SA pageant history books.
According to Sowetan Live, Bianca Schoombee’s now-deleted tweets referred to the N-word repeatedly used the word “bitches” and body-shamed women.
Sowetan Live says that in her defense, Bianca Schoombee argued that the tweets were made when she was young but she had since grown up. The Miss SA entrant withdrew from the beauty competition and issued an apology that was rejected by many, including EFF MP Mbuyiseni Ndlozi and media personality Somizi.
The publication also reports that many on social media said that they needed a wholesome Miss SA like Tunzi and said she had no skeletons in her closet. The beauty queen responded to the suggestion on Instagram this week and said she was not perfect.
“When it hit me, I was taken aback. When I read those things, I thought surely: ‘I’m human and there must have been mistakes, you know, that I’ve made. I can’t really be as perfect as I’m made out to be.’,” as quoted by the publication.
Zozi Tunzi said the incident led her to look through her own old Facebook posts which date as far back as 2012.
She said she saw many posts that she was proud of and others that were insensitive and should never have been shared.
“I was just so disappointed with myself. I was just filled with shame that I thought it was okay to share that at that time.
“I want to take the time to apologize for those posts that I’ve shared, to apologize to anyone that is or was affected by those posts, and just to say that those posts are in direct contrast to who I am and everything that I stand for,” she said.
