Meet your Miss SA 2017 top 26

They will compete for the prestigious title at the Sun City Superbowl on March 25 in an event  and among them are a medical doctor and a speech therapist; several law students; one about to qualify as an engineer; the owner of a construction company and a news reader on Soweto TV.

The semi-finalists come from six of the country's nine provinces: 14 are from Gauteng, six from the Western Cape, three from Kwa-Zulu Natal and one each from the Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga.

They are (in alphabetical order):

- Adè van Heerden - Herold's Bay, Western Cape 

- Boipelo Mabe - Alexandra, Gauteng

- Callie-Jo Bouman - Bellville, Cape Town, Western Cape

- Chante Holloway - Atlantis, Western Cape

- Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters - Sedgefield, Western Cape

- Devoney Crossman - Greenstone, Johannesburg, Gauteng

- Iman Mkwanazi - Lenasia, Gauteng

- Jessica Tovey - Randparkridge, Johannesburg, Gauteng

- Kayla Malherbe - Mtunzini, Kwa Zulu Natal

- Keipeile Dintoe - Saulsville, Pretoria, Gauteng

- Lou-Marie Taljaard - Bellville, Cape Town, Western Cape

- Michelle Kruger - Witbank, Mpumalanga

- Milanie Cilliers - Mokopane, Limpopo

- Nicole van Niekerk - Môregloed, Pretoria, Gauteng

- Nompumelelo Mampholo - Diepkloof, Soweto, Gauteng

- Ntombikayise Msimango - Springs, Gauteng

- Odirile Sepeng - Mabopane, Pretoria, Gauteng

- Olin-Shae de la Cruz - Claremont, Cape Town, Western Cape

- Priyeshka Lutchman - Yellowwood Park, Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal

- Saskia Wagner - Honeydew, Gauteng

- Shané Naidoo - Benoni, Gauteng

- Shelbe Pretorius - Pinehaven, Krugersdorp, Gauteng

- Shenai Bridglall - Port Shepstone, Kwa Zulu Natal

- Tshegofatso Monggae - Dobsonville, Soweto, Gauteng

- Yuta Raubenheimer - Kameeldrift, Pretoria, Gauteng

- Zozibini Tunzi - East London/Tsolo, Eastern Cape