Tendai Hunda was Miss Zimbabwe 2014 first runner-up. On December 14, 2014, she represented Zimbabwe at Miss World 2014, competed against 120 other candidates at the ExCeL London in London, England, United Kingdom and was unplaced.
On December 18, 2025, Hunda represented Zimbabwe at Miss Intercontinental 2015 and competed against 61 other candidates at the Grand Ballroom of Maritim Congress Hotel in Magdeburg, Germany. She was fourth runner-up to Valentina Rasulova of Russia.
On April 4, 2023, Hunda officially became the national director of Miss Universe Zimbabwe. On May 18, 2023, she turned 32.
Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2023
On September 16, 2023, the new Miss Universe Zimbabwe will be crowned at the Harare Hippodrome in Braeside, Harare, Zimbabwe. It is the third edition of the national beauty pageant that selects Zimbabwe’s Miss Universe candidate and its first edition under Hunda’s directorship.
There are 25 women competing for the Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2023 crown. If facial beauty is the only criterion, these will be my Top 5 candidates:
5. Amanda Mpofu (Bulawayo)
4. Yamikani Nyenga (Maryland, United States’ Zimbabwean community)
3. Nokutenda Marumbwa (Lusaka, Zambia’s Zimbabwean community)
2. Audrey Ward (London, England’s Zimbabwean community)
1. Allyfina Mwanyali (Gweru)
Currently, Zimbabwe has one Miss Universe placement. The African country was represented in the international beauty pageant by Yvette D’Almeida-Chakras in 1994, Langa Sibanda-Lloyd in 1996, Lorraine Magwenzi in 1997, Rachel Stuart in 1998, Corinne Crewe in 2000 and Tsungai Muswerakuenda in 2001.
Zimbabwe’s Miss Universe representative was the winner of Miss Zimbabwe Universe between 1994 and 1997 and Miss Paradise Competition between 1998 and 2000. On May 12, 2000, Crewe competed against 78 other Miss Universe 2000 candidates at the Eleftheria Indoor Hall in Nicosia, Cyprus and finished in the Top 10.
Muswerakeunda won the inaugural edition of Miss Universe Zimbabwe under Chakras‘s directorship. The winner of the second edition, which was held in 2011, was Lisa Morgan, who represented Zimbabwe at Miss International 2011 instead of Miss Universe 2011.
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