Miss South Africa 2024: Chidimma Adetshina's participation sparks nationality row
Miss South Africa 2024: Chidimma Adetshina's participation sparks nationality row
Finalist Chidimma Adetshina's participation reveals a seam of xenophobia among some in South Africa.
When law student Chidimma Adetshina clinched a coveted spot as a Miss South Africa finalist, her triumph unleashed a vicious backlash, unearthing a seam of xenophobia that lies close to the surface for some in the country.
The 23-year-old’s name hints at her connection to Nigeria, but internet detectives wanted to know more and combed through every inch of her life. They found that her father is Nigerian and though her mother is South African, her family had come from neighbouring Mozambique.
Ms Adetshina is South African, as verified by the organisers of the pageant. She has said in interviews that she was born in Soweto - the township next to Johannesburg - and grew up in Cape Town.
However, the “go-home” sentiment, and even harsher attacks, flooded social media. There was also a petition demanding her removal from the high-profile televised competition that amassed more than 14,000 signatures before it was taken down.
Jeepers, looking like that, I'd be shoring up her nationality, not questioning it!
You'd think that South Africans, unless we're talking about the white ones here, wouldn't be like this.
White Afrikaner here, we support her fully. She was born here, grew up here, she is South African. Unfortunately due to the piss poor ANC government, since the 2008 with Zuma at the helm, South African employment figures started going down where we have the lowest employment rates in the world, 33% officially, closer to 50% realistically. So they started showing fingers to foreigners taking their jobs, basically a scapegoat to hide behind their failures.
Luckily since the end of May, we now have for the first time a coalition government, no more single party ANC that became complacent after 30 years in government.
Also fuck your comments about us white people here in South Africa. Most of us are truly working hard to better our country, we acknowledge our past and the injustices caused, but we will be vocal about discrimination in all its forms, be it xenophobia or like your racist comments.
Right. Only white people have been racist and xenophobic in the whole history of Africa.
It's little known, but the Hutu oppressors in Rwanda who brutalized the Tutsis were very pale skinned.
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