Kiki Divaris


Vasilliki Babaletakis "Kiki" Divaris was a Greek fashion designer, model and the first white woman to have been declared a liberation war hero in Zimbabwe.

Early life

Divaris grew up in Cape Town.

Career

Divaris was a close friend of Robert Mugabe, his first wife Sally, and current wife, Grace. She created the Miss Zimbabwe beauty pageant. In 2012, at 88, she still ran the event In 2013, she handed over the Miss Zim business to Mary Mubaiwa.

Death

Divaris died in her sleep on 5 December 2015, at the Borrowdale Clinic Trauma Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe, from pneumonia. She was 90.