Curvaceous and dark-skinned beauty Tsakane Sono believes she is the fulfilment of her ancestors’ pride.
Sono, brought up in a family of women with beautiful curves and deep skin tones, says that being crowned Miss Soweto has afforded her opportunities that they could only have dreamt about.
Hailing from Chiawelo, Soweto — the same section that President Cyril Ramaphosa and music legend Sello “Chicco” Twala once called home — the 24-year-old occupational therapist works at Mofolo Clinic. “A person can have a disability and still be part of the community. Often, people are not interested in the issues of people with disabilities or mental illnesses until it hits home. It’s either them or their family member. We don’t need to get to that point to start exercising empathy.”The Miss Soweto competition was an aspirational beauty pageant for the young Sono, like other young girls growing up in her community. Especially because it embraces every kind of beauty.
Applauding beauty platforms such as Miss Soweto for being a pioneer of Black inclusivity, Sono is well aware of society’s blind spot when it comes to disseminating antiquated beauty standards. Sono was brought up by confident, curvy, dark-skinned women who modelled what it meant to be beautiful. “She would often say, ‘Your dark skin is beautiful, so take good care of it and learn to love it.’ This made a difference to my confidence in a world where I was never enough — not pretty enough because I’m dark-skinned and not beautiful enough because I’m not skinny. Because of her I never felt less beautiful.”
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