Chiunwisema Adetshina, the beauty queen of South Africa, is having a citizenship problem. The 23-year-ageder law student, who rose to fame as a Miss South Africa finaenumerate, has come under scrusmall for her nationality. Given her Nigerian and Mozambican ancestry, there have been worrys conveyed pondering her eligibility to recurrent South Africa.
Concerns have been elevated over the legitimacy of Adetshina’s South African citizenship due to allegations of identity theft agetst her mother. She was forced to exit the Miss South Africa contest due to the rerent, stating that she was worried about her family’s shieldedty.
According to the BBC, the Department of Home Afequitables began spendigating her case after she became a finaenumerate in the Miss South Africa pageant but faced criticism as people asked her eligibility to contend becaemploy her mother has Mozambican roots and her obeseher is Nigerian.
The dispute encourageed a wave of nationaenumerate vitriol in South Africa, after which Ms Adetshina tageder the BBC she would need therapy to recover. The Department of Home Afequitables made the proclaimment about the disparticipateal of her ID papers to a parliamentary promisetee on Tuesday.
Tommy Makhode, the top civil servant at the department, shelp Ms Adetshina’s mother would also have her write downs call offled as they had both flunked to greet Monday’s deadline to provide reasons why they should be eligible to grasp them.
Adetshina, who has not inhabitd in Nigeria for two decades, getd an invitation to recurrent Nigeria in the Miss Universe competition despite the dispute. This unanticipateed turn of events has further complicated her situation.
