ROBYN Siebers (18), one of the top 10 contestants in the 2009 Miss Namibia contest, has withdrawn from the competition, the National Director of Miss Namibia, Conny Maritz, has announced.
She has been replaced by 20-year-old Albertina Shigwedha, a receptionist at Conradie and Damaseb Attorneys and a former contestant in the 2008 M-Net Face of Africa competition. Robyn’s father, Rainer Siebers, told The Namibian that he decided to withdraw his daughter from the national competition after reading the fine print in the contract. One of the contractual requirements states that the contestant must have been resident in the country for six months before the start of the competition. ‘Robyn has been up and down between Namibia and South Africa for much of this year, helping her sister with her wedding preparations. I made the difficult decision to withdraw her because I didn’t want her to be disqualified from taking part in future Miss Namibia competitions,’ he explained.
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