'I was born in South Africa', says beauty queen facing legal bid to deport her
Beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina, who is facing deportation from South Africa, has reiterated that she was born in the country and believes she has been "treated unfairly and targeted". South African officials want her detained as they pursue her deportation after she was declared a prohibited person in 2024.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: South African officials want her detained as they pursue her deportation after she was declared a prohibited person in 2024.
- Fact 2: Adetshina, 25, whose mother has Mozambican roots and her father is Nigerian, was stripped of her identity documents after questions around her citizenship were raised when she took part in the 2024 Miss South Africa contest.
- Fact 3: Adetshina, a law student at the time, left South Africa in 2024 and went on to win Miss Universe Nigeria after she was invited to participate by the organisers.
- Fact 4: In court, South Africa's home affairs department argued that she applied for a South African visa while she was in Nigeria and Nigerian passports for her and her son therefore implying that she was not a South African citizen, according to reports in the News24 site.
Beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina, who is facing deportation from South Africa, has reiterated that she was born in the country and believes she has been "treated unfairly and targeted". South African officials want her detained as they pursue her deportation after she was declared a prohibited person in 2024.
Adetshina, 25, whose mother has Mozambican roots and her father is Nigerian, was stripped of her identity documents after questions around her citizenship were raised when she took part in the 2024 Miss South Africa contest. She then left the country. She was arrested in June this year - and later released on warning - after being accused of re-entering South Africa unlawfully.
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Original source: BBC News World
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