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‘I was born in South Africa’, says beauty queen Chidimma Adetshina facing legal bid to deport her
In court, South Africa's Home Affairs Department argued that she had applied for a South African visa while in Nigeria and held Nigerian passports for herself and her son, implying that she was not a South African citizen, according to reports on the News24 site.
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.
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".
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