Miss South Africa contest in turmoil as finalist’s mother accused of fraud

South African government joins row over Chidimma Adetshina’s heritage with suggestion mother may have committed identity theft

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The ruckus led to an investigation into her citizenship by the home affairs ministry, after a request from the pageant’s organisers. “An innocent South African mother, whose identity may have been stolen as part of the alleged fraud committed by Adetshina’s mother, suffered as a result because she could not register her child.”

Adetshina, who is due to compete in the Miss South Africa finals this weekend, has previously told local media she was born in Soweto to a Nigerian father and a South African mother of Mozambican descent.

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