Hillary Makaya is a multi-award winning Zimbabwean teenage model based in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Hillary comes from a modelling family as her aunt Connie Makaya was the first black beauty pageant queen in Zimbabwe and her cousin Catherine Makayathe Olympian athlete was also Miss Zimbabwe in 2014.
She has won more than 5 beauty pageants in Zimbabwe from Miss Teen to Miss InterContinental She started as a runway model at Top Model Zimbabwe Agency for a year and eventually entered her first pageant, Miss Interact Zimbabwe, which was for teens and won.
This motivated her to keep on taking part in different pageants. She also participated in several pageants and managed to scoop titles as Miss Teen World Heritage 2016-2017 and Miss Intercontinental Zimbabwe 2017-2018.