ONGOING HOME AFFAIRS INVESTIGATION FINDS PRIMA FACIE Indications OF FRAUD COMMITTED BY CHIDIMMA ADETSHINA’S MOTHER

The Department of Home Affairs herewith provides an update on the ongoing investigation into the citizenship of Chidimma Adetshina, a contestant in the upcoming Miss SA event.

The reason for the ongoing nature of the investigation is that its scope has broadened since the original request received from the organisers of Miss SA, based on the information uncovered by Home Affairs investigators thus far.

The Department nonetheless provides this public update based on the official request received from Miss SA, as well as the consent provided by both the contestant and her mother. We will provide a final update once the investigation is concluded.

On Monday, 05 August 2024, the organisers of the event sent the Department a request to verify the citizenship of a contestant, Chidimma Adetshina. This request was accompanied by written consent from both Adetshina and her mother.

Upon receiving this request, the Department deployed every resource at its disposal to establish the truth. This has included archival research, visits to hospitals, and site visits to verify information.

From the information we have uncovered thus far, the Department of Home Affairs can indicate that:

Prima facie reasons exist to believe that fraud and identity theft may have been committed by the person recorded in Home Affairs records as Chidimma Adetshina’s mother;

Adetshina could not have participated in the alleged unlawful actions of her mother, as she was an infant at the time when the activities took place in 2001;

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;

The Department has broadened its investigation to identify and pursue any officials involved in the alleged fraudulent scheme, and is obtaining legal advice on the implications of the alleged fraudulent activity on Adetshina’s citizenship status; and

Upon the completion of the investigation, Home Affairs intends to press criminal charges against all implicated parties.

There are ongoing engagements with all stakeholders, including Adetshina’s mother.

This case, which stems from alleged fraudulent activities committed 23 years ago, highlights the urgent need for the digital modernisation of Home Affairs applications, adjudication and verification processes, to insulate the Department against fraudulent interference, similar to the reforms undertaken at the South African Revenue Service in the late 2000s.

The case also highlights the reason for the Department’s blocking of certain duplicate IDs, and that the court-ordered unblocking of these documents must be handled with caution.

Throughout this process, Home Affairs is guided by our commitment to both restoring and upholding the rule of the law as well as the rights of all parties.

For media enquiries, please contact:

Siya Qoza: 082 898 1657

Duwayne Esau – Spokesperson for the Minister: 067 630 4183

Department of Home Affairs - Republic of South Africa

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Why digging it out now, these people will go to any length to discredit, ridicule and embarrass this girl, and force her to quit the show

This year's miss south Africa pageant show has exposed the dark underbelly of the south African society, it has brought out all the beast in south Africans simply because a girl with nigerian roots is contesting, reading their hateful and disgusting comments on social media shows their level of hatred towards nigerians

She should just withdraw from the show, I'm never going to forgive them for this

These people will stop at nothing to remove that girl. I'm even scared for her life at this point

So, are they saying that Chidimma's mother isn't from South Africa?

Soulpen:
These people will stop at nothing to remove that girl. I'm even scared for her life at this point

Exactly.

South Africans are planning to protest on the 10th.

So they will force the girl out of the contest with anything

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omo see hatred,south Africa will asslick their white counterparts but will form Rambo for their fellow blacks,Mandela fought for nothing.


do you know that there are some places black SA citizen's can't enter even in their own country?

I don’t care

As I opined in the earlier threads on the subject..

If this girl had any sense at all, she would willingly pull out of this shi....but I suspect she doesn't have sense.

Maybe when they give you some major stress and trauma to deal with, you'll have sense.

If a beautiful girl called Nthamelo with obvious SA roots can't be Miss Nigeria, you Chidimma Adeshina have no business being Miss SA.

Simple.

The nerve!

untop small play, una begin dig

Na wa

To be sincere, south Africa is not a place to be. I wonder what sane Nigerians are doing there. Nigeria is even better.

Ok ooh

Lies

She should just rest and forget about the contest

The whole fraudulent Nigerian assumption is held by a small yet vocal populace. It’s like the ignorant people of the internet who make one believe illiterates thrive online.

I still don't understand what they are trying to say, is it that her Mother is not South African?

If the girl is southy while contesting in Nigeria same Nigerians won't accept it

People wey no like us before, you have now given them a reason. I wish them well o.

The name "Chidinma" is Igbo but the adetshina is so confusing.

Chidimma should honourably back out than wait to be disgraced.
My humble opinion though

Satafricans 😂

Goodman247:
She should just rest and forget about the contest

Xonophobic riot fit break out in South Africa even if she carries 3rd.

There's a reason it's been called the black continent, Africa is a place where we doubt faith just to prove faith.

Hard luck on her, if other nation should apply same pressure e for red for many but then this SA, Nigerians will say na their way.

NCAN is confused

Dear Chi chi,
Please be proud of your Nigerianess and come home

to those that talk xenophobic on this, this is exactly what Tribalism feels like