Ex-beauty queen Pearl Jansen relives Miss World moment, 50 years later
Miss World's sop to apartheid surprised the world, but was forgotten at home
02 February 2020 - 00:00
"I thought it must be a prank," says Pearl Jansen of the phone call she received last year. After decades of living in seclusion in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town, Jansen was invited to London to revisit her experience of being runner-up in the Miss World beauty contest in the UK in 1970...
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