Brains vs Beauty: Road To Miss SA enlightens SA

Mzansi Magic's new reality show, Road To Miss SA, shows interviews with thousands of young women nationwide all hopefuls to be our new Miss SA. But 3 episodes in, it seems the contestants are struggling with the simplest of questions...

Who's the name of our Deputy President? What are our nine provinces? What is out national animal? Even former beauty queens are angry at the picture being painted of the pageant: All beauty, no brains....

5FM presenter Anele Mdoda defended the girls on Twitter: "These questions are stupid, I'm sorry. You cannot set out to stump the girls but to build on their confidence." but many are battling to see this side of things when even the simplest questions go unanswered.

"Our national animal would be ... is it the big five? Oh, national animal would be the elephant ... a rhino..."