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Maun \u2014 At just nine-years-old, Masa Phodiso carries herself with the poise, determination, and cultural pride that seasoned beauty queens spend years trying to perfect.<\/p>\n
What began as a simple, spontaneous entry into a local pageant at the age of five has transformed the Maun-born prodigy into one of Botswana’s youngest international cultural ambassadors and a rising force in global children’s pageantry.<\/p>\n
A Standard 4 pupil at Disaneng Primary School in Maun, Masa is now synonymous with discipline…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Maun \u2014 At just nine-years-old, Masa Phodiso carries herself with the poise, determination, and cultural pride that seasoned beauty queens spend years trying to perfect. What began as a simple, spontaneous entry into a local pageant at the age of five has transformed the Maun-born prodigy into one of Botswana’s youngest international cultural ambassadors and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":214622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,15708,257,254,4281,5056,5093],"class_list":["post-214621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-masa","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-takes","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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