Pearl Jansen

Pearl Jansen
Born
Pearl Gladys Jansen

1950
Bonteheuwel, Cape Town
TitleMiss World 1970
(1st Runner-Up)

Pearl Gladys Jansen (born 1950 in Bonteheuwel) is a South African singer and beauty pageant titleholder who was first runner-up in the Miss World beauty contest in the UK in 1970. She was the first coloured woman to represent her country at this level. She competed as "Miss Africa South" due to apartheid.[1]

  1. ^ Flanagan, Jane. "The story of Misbehaviour: feminists, flour bombs and the first black Miss South Africa". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 31 March 2022.