Anneline Kriel

Anneline Kriel (born 28 July 1955) is a South African actress, model and a former Miss World and Miss South Africa .

She grew up in Witbank, and became Miss World 1974 representing South Africa after the UK's Helen Morgan resigned only four days after her victory.

She became the second woman from South Africa to hold the title.

On 22 November 1973, the twenty-fourth Miss World Pageant was held at The Royal Albert Hall in London, UK. Representing South Africa, Kriel went on to be crowned Miss World 1974.

The event was viewed by an estimated 30,000,000 people and was a "World Wide Special" on the ABC television network.

In 2017, the famous Krugerrand studded dress, which Kriel wore as her National dress, was put on display at the Prins and Prins Diamonds Museum of Gems & Jewellery, in Cape Town for the public to view.

In 2018, Anneline Kriel added another evening gown to the exhibition that she wore on the evening of the Miss World Pageant in 1974. The dress is also on display at the Prins and Prins Diamonds Museum of Gems & Jewellery, in Cape Town.

Kriel attended the sixtieth Anniversary of the Miss South African Pageant in Johannesburg in 2018.

Career

Kriel was only nineteen years old when she became Miss World in 1974. This marked a tumultuous period in South African history, as the international boycott of South Africa due to the apartheid system continued to take pace. As a result, she sometimes caught the fire of international media that depicted her as a face of the apartheid regime. In support of the boycott, the United States and Australia refused to accept her as part of the obligatory world tour of the Miss World pageant.

Welsh singer Shirley Bassey also protested against her receiving the award. However, the United States later relented and Kriel was allowed to make television appearances in the country. In South Africa, her victory at the contest received a rapturous response from both the public, and local media.^[1]

Thereafter, she became an ambassador for several beauty brands, completing public relations activities.

She has also starred in several Afrikaans films, soap operas, stage plays^[2] and the internationally successful film, Kill and Kill Again which debuted at #2 at the US Box Office.^[3]

In 1981, Kriel released the pop single, "He Took Off My Romeos"^[4][5]

Personal life

Kriel was born in Pretoria and was raised in the mining town of Witbank, the daughter of a prison officer.^[1] She has two siblings.

As a student, she lived in Huis Asterhof (formerly Vergeet-my-nie) whilst studying Drama at the University of Pretoria. Kriel made one film called "Somer" which was a set book for schools written by CM van den Heever. She also made a television short story in Afrikaans, called "Storieboekmoord". Whilst at university, she became Rag Queen and entered the Miss South Africa competition and won the Miss Northern Transvaal Competition. She won Miss South Africa, and later won Miss World after initially finishing in second place when Helen Morgan of the UK stepped down after just four days.

In March 1976, Kriel was embroiled in a scandal over leaked nude photographs that she willingly posed for, and appeared in the media and on the front page of the Sunday Times. Roy Hilligenn took the photographs and sold them to a British newspaper for R100,000. The photos revealed her sunbathing nude on holiday and her naked boyfriend, Richard Loring.

Kriel went from being Miss World to be a fashion model and worked in Italy for five years. She worked as the Birra Peroni model in television and magazine adds. She also worked as a model in Paris and New York with Johnny Casablanca Model Management Agency. Kriel has also made efforts to learn the French and Italian languages.

Kriel returned to South Africa from New York to marry Sol Kerzner in 1980. She divorced five years later and married Philip Tucker in Johannesburg, where they lived and had two children; Tayla and Witney. They divorced nine years later in 1994.

Kriel married Peter Bacon in 1997, the CEO and former protege of Kerzner. The couple currently reside in Mauritius.

Kriel and Sol Kerzner sought an interdict against Jonathan Ball Publishers Ltd. and Allan Breenblo over Breenblo's Kerzner Unauthorised, an unauthorised biography of Kerzner. They claimed that the content would infringe on their reputations.^[6]

In 2007, Kriel, a Goldin family friend, attended the murder trials for the killers of actor Brett Goldin and fashion designer, Richard Bloom.^[7]

In 2017, Kriel suggested that then-President of South Africa Jacob Zuma face charges of crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court for failing to protect farmers in South Africa.

Filmography

References

10. https://www.businesslive.co.za/rdm/politics/2017-02-24-anneline-kriel-and-andile-mgxithama-go-toe-to-toe-over-farm-murders/

External links

External video

MISS WORLD - COLOUR 1974 Miss World at the Albert Hall. AP Archive - British Movietone News footage.

• Who's who-Anneline Kriel
• YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJNCKzM3VvGqt-djy3Wy7Sw
• Anneline Kriel on IMDb
• Anneline Kriel Page on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/AnnelineKrielBacon/?ref=bookmarks

Awards and achievements
Preceded by Helen Morgan	Miss World 1974	Succeeded by Wilnelia Merced