Miss South Africa finalist Chidimma Adetshina, who recently endured xenophobic attacks over her citizenship status, has refuted claims about a viral video featuring a man misconstrued as her father, stating, 'That's not my father.'
Adetshina has been trending on social media amid backlash about her citizenship and her Nigerian heritage. Adetshina is in the top 11 of the Miss South Africa 2024 competition.
However, the 23-year-old Adetshina, born in 2001, is the daughter of a Nigerian father and a South African mother of Mozambican descent.
Amid the ongoing backlash, a video went viral on social media in which a Nigerian man was misconstrued as Adetshina's father. In the video, the Nigerian man, who is also married to a South African woman, clearly states that he first came to South Africa in 2010 for the FIFA World Cup.
Adetshina would have been 9 by then.
