‘I’m only accountable to KFC’- Miss SD licence holder

Miss Swaziland licence holder Vinah Mamba-Gray feels she is only answerable to the pageant’s main sponsor, KFC and nobody else.

Mamba-Gray was responding to the Swaziland National Council of Arts and Culture (SNCAC)’s intentions to set up an enquiry into the operations of the Miss Swaziland pageant.
She is ‘none too pleased’ about that.
She argues that the SNCAC has never invested a cent into the running of the pageant and, therefore, she is not accountable to it.
The SNCAC feels a need to probe the operations of the Miss Swaziland pageant after Miss Swaziland Nompilo Mncina was said to have left the country without pocket money.
“With all due respect, why should I be held accountable to the Culture Council when we don’t even get a government subvention?” she asked rhetorically. An audibly upset Mamba-Gray further said that she can only be held accountable to the pageant’s main sponsor, KFC Director Mario Pimenta.
KFC financially backed the Miss Swaziland contest with E500 000.
She added that her stance shouldn’t be construed to be of a disrespectful nature.
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“Quite honestly, I have nothing to hide but I find it rather strange for them to want to do that because I have never misappropriated any money. I feel I can only answer to the SNCAC only when they give me money,” she added.
She went on to say that she has on a number of occasions submitted a budget to the SNCAC but that the latter never responded.
Instead, she says the SNCAC has only purchased an airticket for the reigning Miss Swaziland, Nompilo Mncina.
“I have never ever been given hard cash by Culture Council. They bought the ticket themselves and I was never given the money to do so,” she said.
Meanwhile, she says she solely solicited for funds to host the contest. She adds that she has recently come under fire for no reason.
“It saddens me that no one thinks about me and all I have gone through to ensure the Miss Swaziland contest is held. When something goes wrong, everything comes back to me. Nobody cares to hear my side of the story,” she said.
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She further said that in as much as she has been criticised on a countless number of occasions, she will continue to run the pageant because of her love for her country and not because she benefits anything from it.

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