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This video went viral in Nigeria during the End Bad Governance Protests. It showed some people eating and drinking. They were speaking in Igbo Language and they said that they were not joining the protest and this (eating and drinking) was their own form of protest.

The video also went viral in South Africa days later. Some South Africans claimed that the video showed Nigerians in South Africa talking about the Miss SA contest and saying that they would protest if Chidimma Adetshina did not win the pageant.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRmfBvxHXNM?si=IJwQ0uzixjl5mDJ8

This caught the attention of AFP and Yahoo News.

Footage does not show Nigerians planning protest in support of Miss SA contestant

AFP Nigeria / AFP South Africa
Thu, August 8, 2024

With only days to go until the crowning of Miss South Africa 2024, much of the talk leading up to the final has centred on the eligibility of Chidimma Adetshina, a contestant who was born to parents from Nigeria and Mozambique. On social media, a video circulated with a claim that it showed a group of Nigerians in South Africa making plans to stage a protest if Adetshina was disqualified. But this is false; the footage is unrelated and shows a group of men speaking in Igbo about demonstrations in Nigeria against President Bola Tinubu and his government.
“Nigerians in South Africa say that they are planning to protest and fight if their Nigerian Chidina (sic) is disqualified from entering Miss South Africa pageant, even if it means through blood and sweat,” reads an X post published with a video on July 31, 2024.

The footage, taken at night, shows a group of men, some in West African attire, preparing to have a big meal. A man addresses the group in Igbo and says the word “protest” several times in the short clip.

The post’s caption also claims the men said they had the backing of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) — a radical leftist party which won 39 parliamentary seats in the South African presidential elections held on May 29, 2024.

The EFF is often associated with immigration issues because of its favourable stance on pan-Africanism and dismantling borders on the continent.

The party condemned “afrophobic attacks” against Adetshina but it did not announce any support for such a protest

Unrelated footage

AFP Fact Check’s Nigeria correspondent confirmed the men in the video are speaking Igbo and sarcastically lauding Tinubu’s leadership.

“We are protesting against the leadership of Tinubu. We are having our protest here. Protest of one person, one full chicken. His leadership favours us. We Igbos say Tinubu’s leadership is good…The highest protest you can ever see.”

There is no mention in the video of either the Miss South Africa beauty contest or Adetshina.

Igbo people are primarily from southeastern Nigeria and are traditionally subsistence farmers

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) – a separatist group pushing for independence in Nigeria’s southeast region – warned Igbo people on July 31, 2024, against joining anti-Tinubu protests planned for August, not as a show of support for the president but rather to further their calls for a referendum on secession from the country.

Nigerian security forces cracked down on rallies spurred by economic hardship after thousands of people began taking to the streets on August 1 to protest government policies and the high cost of living.

Pageant controversy

As reported by AFP, Adetshina, 23, who was due to compete in the Miss South Africa finals this weekend, suffered a torrent of online abuse over her Nigerian heritage.

She previously told local media she was born in Soweto to a Nigerian father and a South African mother of Mozambican descent.

Her participation in the pageant stoked anti-foreigner sentiment in the nation, which has witnessed violent, and at times deadly, attacks on immigrants in the past.

On August 7, the pageant was thrown into further turmoil when the government accused Adetshina’s mother of fraud and identity theft.

An investigation into her citizenship by the Home Affairs ministry uncovered “prima facie indications” that Adetshina’s mother might have committed fraud and stolen the identity of a South African woman after the Miss SA hopeful was born, the ministry said.

“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,” said Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber.

The ministry said it was obtaining legal advice on the implications for Adetshina’s citizenship, adding the contestant did not participate in the alleged unlawful actions as she was an infant at the time.

A day later, Adetshina announced her withdrawal from the competition.

“I have made the difficult decision to withdraw myself from the competition for the safety of my family and I,” she wrote on Instagram.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/footage-does-not-show-nigerians-142140492.html?

Some Nigerian athletes were disqualified from the Tokyo 2020 Olympics because Nigerian officials failed to ensure that they underwent the minimum required drug tests.

Nigeria had been put in category A in the drug testing schedule and this meant that athletes from Nigeria had to meet certain criteria. Specifically, an athlete from a ‘Category A’ country must undergo at least three no-notice out-of-competition tests (urine and blood) conducted no less than 3 weeks apart in the 10 months leading up to a major event. Only then do they become eligible to represent their national team at the World Athletics Championships or the Olympic Games. Nigerian officials failed to inform the athletes or ensure that they were tested.

Consequently Knowledge Omovoh, Ruth Usoro, Favor Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, Glory Patrick, Yinka Ajayi, Tima Godbless, Chidi Okezie, Chioma Onyekwere and Annette Echikunwoke could not participate in the games.

This is what a South African tweeted last week.


Kwena Molekwa @Miz_Ruraltarain

She was set to represent NIGERIA in 2020 Olympics but Her Name Annette Nneka Echikunwoke betrayed her and was disqualified along tribal lines with nine other athletes, The Nigerian Athletic Federation claimed she didn't meet the requirements and omitted her name.

This year 2024, she changed her allegiance to the United States to compete at Paris

Now, she made history for herself, becoming the first woman in America to win an Olympic silver medals in the women's hammer throw.
A country so divided along tribal lines can not make headway.
Nigerians want to unite in South Africa while tribalism kills their rotten country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICIW6j6o2D4?si=ilnBi0LdscdcPlWq

'Not my father': Miss SA finalist Chidimma Adetshina dispels rumours following viral video

⚫️ Miss SA hopeful Chidimma Adetshina has denied any connection to an unidentified man interviewed in viral clip from the Ben Stesh podcast.

⚫️ The interview extract featured a Nigerian man that was mistaken for her father speaking about his time in the UK where he met his South African wife.

⚫️ Kenny Kunene, in his capacity as the deputy president of the Patriotic Alliance, said the party was exploring its legal options to determine Adetshina's citizenship.

Miss South Africa 2024 finalist Chidimma Adetshina who has been at the center of controversy, clarified that her father was not the person featured in the widely circulated clip from an interview on the Ben Stesh podcast.

"It has been brought to my attention that there is an alleged interview going around about my father. The individual in question, claiming and impersonating to be my dad, is not my father," she wrote on social media.

The snippet has added fuel to the ongoing frenzy about the top 11 finalist's eligibility to participate in the pageant because of her Nigerian father and South African mother's Mozambican descent.

In the interview, the unknown man stated he was a Nigerian man with a South African wife whom he met in the United Kingdom.

He said they first came to South Africa for the World Cup in 2010 and left a few weeks later before returning to the country in 2013 and tying the knot with his wife in the same year. The man also said he lived in the country for 10 years, without disclosing the years, and had children who lived in South Africa.

Several people who had heard the clip thinking that they were listening to her father speaking highlighted how his timelines went against what Adetshina shared with Sowetan's SMag and the Miss South Africa Organisation about herself and her parents.

She told the publication that her parents met in Johannesburg in the late 1990s and settled in Pimville, Soweto, at the maternal grandmother's home. The 23-year-old was also born at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital in the early 2000s.

Addressing the matter related to Adetshina's citizenship, Home Affairs Deputy Minister Njabulo Nzuza said South African citizenship was obtained by birth, descent or naturalisation earlier this week.

Per the government, one automatically qualified for citizenship if they were born in South Africa to at least one parent who was a South African citizen or South African permanent residency holder and if they were adopted by a South African citizen.

Weighing in on the matter again on Wednesday evening interview with Robert Marawa on 947, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Gayton McKenzie said while he was still waiting for all the facts, no foreign nationals should participate in the Miss South Africa pageant.

"I hold the view that no Nigerian, no Zimbabwean, no Italian and no American should become Miss South Africa," he said.

"Why? There's Miss World for those things, and there's Miss Universe for those things, but Miss South Africa is an ambassador of the country, a person who will export our culture and way of life to the world, a person who will go and make sure people want to visit the country."

Meanwhile, Kenny Kunene, deputy president of McKenzie's Patriotic Alliance, said the party was considering its options to establish Adetshina's citizenship.

"As the Patriotic Alliance, we are therefore pursuing legal avenues to get to the bottom of this matter, including Adetshina's participation, if necessary," Kunene said.

I still can't understand why some south Africans see Nigerians as their greatest enemy. I mean, we aren't the ones who made you guys 1st class slaves in your own country, are we? So why the hate?

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Responses to the first tweet (about protest).

You can't eat your.cake and have it back 😁😁🤪


Igbos were spreading bad news about Nigeria because they lost election and South Africans help them in spreading the gospel

Nothing new here. They will also enjoy the labour of bad news

Make everybody rest..

But who are the Nigerians selling drugs in South Africa pls stop selling it
This people now call us drug sellers this bad

That’s what they do best, they make babies with their SA irresponsible men and when they get an opportunity to date a Nigerian they want the Nigerian to take care of them, their bastard kids and parents.

They are clamping down on Nigerians here arresting people they perceive as Nigerians take them to station and profile them before release if they are not Nigerians. My friend was arrested two weeks ago for not having his document with him, the document was later sent through a lawyer to them but they still refused to release him till after 4 days

It's well

Very useless set of beings

The Caucasians knows exactly how to turn Africans against each other.

This disqualification of Chidinma was another means used by the Caucasian Beauty Pageant Organizers to fuel the Animosity between Nigerians and South Africans in order to ensure that Afŕicans never see themselves as one People.
It is a divide and conquer strategy that the Caucasians have been using to sustain their neo-colonization of Africa till date, as I explained in my recent post Three Strategies Used By The West To Keep Africa Poor

If in doubt, here is a comment contained in a 2019 letter by EFF secretary-general Godrich Gardee to the Organizers of this same Miss SA Beauty Pageant Show:
"The pageant looks like a platform that is being used to promote white people in South Africa. We are extremely concerned because the people who get an opportunity to supply goods and services for Miss South Africa pageant are white-owned companies only,"
Link to the full article https://www.sowetanlive.co.za/sundayworld/news/2019-07-14-miss-sa-organisers-racist-eff/

South African from time immemorial have been suffering from inferiority complex hidden in their xenophobia shit. If not for bad governance we no even dey the same level

HungerDey:
That’s what they do best

boss do me small thing make i use chop abeg

At the mention of the name "Nigeria" their dicks will rise hard and their pussy will wet like river Mississippi.

Nigeria gives them orgasm anyhow.

It's a deaf white that won the pageant, very very low of them.

F*cking slaves.

Miss SA Controversy: South Africans Spread Fake News About Nigerians

What's new? Weren't they the ones that managed to transform the image of Nigerians from Brilliant Hard workers to Drug Pushers?

Make I no talk sha

Whatever ammunition the South Africans are using to attack and target Nigerians today were supplied by Ipob not be confused with ordinary igbos.

Every lingo such as Zoogoria, Every video such as the one falsely interpreted and Every insult targeted at Nigerians was supplied by IPob for the purpose of disparaging Nigeria.

It's unfortunate that the major targets of the insults are still igbos, some of whom have worked extremely hard to establish themselves in South Africa over decades. There is an old saying that "don't wash your dirty linen in the public"

The funny part is Nigerians are not the major drug dealers in South Africa. It's the Pakistanis, Lebanese and East Europeans that controls drug trafficking in South Africa.

Whoever linked the video to the rubbish and xenophobic miss south African is mad to be modest. Mtchee.

This is embarrassing.

See how our people go about making our country an object of ridicule when they go to other countries.

I feel ashamed, when these people insult us like this. How did Nigeria get to this point?

Don't blame the South Africans. They merely learnt spreading of fake news from APC propaganda urchins.

This South Africans seems to me to be way too petty.

Ola9ja23:
You can't eat your.cake and have it back 😁😁🤪


Igbos were spreading bad news about Nigeria because they lost election and South Africans help them in spreading the gospel

Nothing new here. They will also enjoy the labour of bad news

They are even the ones in the center of this mess and mockery...Mzansi crétins have been sharing some certain pictures with a certain shape of heads...no be say dem no know their their targets. They just dey attack us all collectively sadly.

These guys are lowlifes, don't amplify their stupidity.

South African fear their white oppressors more than anything yet are quick to attack their fellow blacks over insignificant issues

And in sport, instead of our mumu Super Eagles to vent their anger on this xenophobic South Africans, they'll still be playing like mumu. Now world cup is gone and lost to them

A very terrible time to be a Nigerian

joseph1832:
I still can't understand why some south Africans see Nigerians as their greatest enemy. I mean, we aren't the ones who made you guys 1st class slaves in your own country, are we? So why the hate?

The zulu xhosa backward cassava munching baboons do not understand what it means to think like civilized beings .

They only know hate and bitterness just like how a certain tribe behaves in Nigeria.

Tribalism and racism and twin emotions of the backward and uncivilized barbaric beings who have chosen to remain backward.

Uncouth uncivilized barbarians best left to remain under apartheid rule.

These zulu monkey cannibals can't even exist without the white man. 🤣

That's how one of their tree living monkey women came on Instagram today shouting that they rejected Ms Adeshina because she doesn't look like South African women!!! I feel laugh.🤣🤣

Damn right she doesn't, because of she did she won't even be int he top 50 contestants you gremlin looking teddy ruxpin hybrid orangutans 🤣🤣🤣

Hypocrisy!

Nairaland has been used by Reno Omokri and his demons of babablu to spread fake news about Peter Obi. And it is easily pushed to the fronpage.

Remove the log in your eyes first before you can see the speck of wood in another.

It was Nigerians that marketed themselves to the world as drug dealers. A lot of us love to abuse the nation without making any significant contribution to it. Outsiders see how the people have no regards for the nation. If we didn't treat our nation so poorly, none of this would happen. Also, Africa really needs to stop this tribal hate we have for each other. This Ghana, South Africa and Nigeria beef would be better channelled into science and societal development race. We should challenge ourselves to be better nations, not have pointless arguments online. The same Caucasians most of us are trying to impress sees all of us as one backwater continent. Some even think Nigeria is the capital of Africa.

Nigerians acting like the Chidimma wouldn't have won miss the SA pageant if she didnt withdraw from the race

That we have to talk about SA everyday shows we are acting like bad losers

I no know why we go dey worry about people wey dey very far from us like this