The annual 2014 Miss Black Pride drag and transgender pageant and after-party was recently held at club Simply Blue in Johannesburg.
The winner was 30-year-old Elliot Mohibedi Monale, also known as Thibi, a mining and exploration geologist who hails from Rhenosterkraal, Rustenburg.
Lauren Hassiem took these pictures of the event, now in its ninth year.
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