Amy Kleinhans
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Amy Kleinhans | |
|---|---|
| Born | Amy Kleinhans |
| Other names | Amy Kleinhans-Curd |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Title | Miss South Africa 1992 |
| Hair color | Black |
| Eye color | Brown |
| Major competition(s) | Miss South Africa 1991 (1st runner-up) Miss South Africa 1992 (Winner) Miss World 1992 (Top 5) (Miss World Africa) |
Amy Kleinhans-Curd (born 1968) is a South African model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss South Africa 1992,[1] the first person of colour to win in the history of South Africa. She placed Top 5 to Miss World as Miss World Africa on 12 December 1992. Kleinhans also appears on the Afrikaans language South African reality show Die Real Housewives van die Wynlande.
As a 23-year-old Cape Coloured woman, she competed for the first time in 1991 and placed second. She competed the following year and defeated 11 other contestants for the title of Miss South Africa 1992, the first a woman of colour was crowned in the history of Miss South Africa.[1]
Her first runner-up was a black woman Augustine Masilela of Soweto, who would be a Top 10 semifinalist at Miss Universe 1995.
Kleinhans would crown her successor a year later, Palesa Jacqui Mofokeng, who would be the first black Miss South Africa ever and the second person of colour to capture the crown.[2]
In 2014, she was guest judge in the final Miss South Africa 2014 beauty pageant, venue in the Sun City Superbowl, Rustenburg, South Africa. Transmitted by television network DStv.
