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Pretoria beauty Marilyn Ramos has taken the title of Miss South Africa 2012 in a glittering pageant at the Sun City Superbowl.
The 2011 runner-up Remona Moodley handed over the filigree silver and Swarovski crystal crown to the new queen on Sunday night.
Twenty one year-old Ramos said that, as Miss South Africa, she intends to approach and build relationships between the elderly and the youth.
First princess was 23-year-old law student Stacey Webb from the Western Cape.
Twitter favourite Pearle Nxele was crowned second princess.