Over 16 million South Africans voted in the May 29 elections which produced no clear winner for the first time in Mzansi's democratic dispensation. Among those who did vote, and perhaps even among those who did not vote, many would have no doubt loved to vote for former president Jacob Zuma to get into Parliament. But that couldn't happen, because Zuma did not qualify to stand as a Member of Parliament, owing to his July 2021 conviction and sentencing to 15 months imprisonment for being in contempt of court.
No matter how loudly or how much of a racket that followed, once the Constitutional Court ruled on the matter as it did in May, just a fortnight before the elections, it was over for Zuma, in that respect. Enter Chidimma Vanessa Onwe Adetshina, the beautiful former Miss South Africa hopeful, born of a Nigerian dad and a Mozambican mom. Until last week, millions of South Africans were hoodwinked into believing Adetshina's mother was a South African.
"My dad is a proud Nigerian and my mother was born and raised in South Africa but has roots from Mozambique. My mom's family still lives in Soweto and I visit them from time to time," the 23-year-old Soweto-born Adetshina told the media. A preliminary investigation by Home Affairs found Adetshina's mom may have committed identity fraud and acquired her citizenship illegally, a preliminary finding yet to be rebuffed in any way, shape or form, by the Adetshinas.
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber, with the consent of Adetshina,.