{"id":7640,"date":"2024-08-09T06:48:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T06:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7640"},"modified":"2024-08-09T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T06:50:33","slug":"south-africa-contestant-pulls-out-amid-nationality-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7640","title":{"rendered":"South Africa contestant pulls out amid nationality row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Miss South Africa beauty contestant at the centre of a nationality row has withdrawn from the competition, saying she took the decision for her and her family&#8217;s safety and well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chidimma Adetshina&#8217;s announcement on Instagram came a day after a preliminary investigation by the home affairs department found that her mother may have committed &#8220;identity theft&#8221; to become a South African national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ms Adetshina &#8211; a 23-year-old law student &#8211; said she was born in Soweto, a township next to Johannesburg, and grew up in Cape Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-865bd558317871feb493b4e7224a73af ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tCRq0tXnE5I?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In media interviews she explained her father was Nigerian and her mother was a South African of Mozambican descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For weeks her roots have been at the centre of a social media storm, with some South Africans questioning whether she was a South African.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the row escalated, the organisers of the Miss South Africa pageant asked the home affairs department to conduct an investigation ahead of the event on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement on Wednesday, the department said it had so far found that the identity of an &#8220;innocent&#8221; South African mother &#8220;may have been stolen&#8221; by Ms Adetshina&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Ms Adetshina &#8220;could not have participated in the alleged unlawful actions of her mother as she was an infant at the time&#8221;, the department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It added that it was conducting further investigations with the aim of pressing criminal charges, while also obtaining legal advice &#8220;on the implications of the alleged fraudulent activity on Adetshina&#8217;s citizenship status&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C-aE4F4NdoA\/?igsh=MXhjN2V2ZXpoN29wMg%3D%3D\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">In an Instagram post<\/a>, Ms Adetshina did not respond to the findings, but said she had taken the &#8220;difficult decision&#8221; to withdraw from the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said she was grateful &#8220;for all the love and support&#8221; she had received, and wished the remaining contestants the best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Whoever wears the crown, represents us all,&#8221; Ms Adetshina added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miss South Africa beauty contestant at the centre of a nationality row has withdrawn from the competition, saying she took the decision for her and her family&#8217;s safety and well-being. 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