Eyewitness News
The Home Affairs Department says it will cancel the identity and travel documents of former Miss South Africa contestant, Chidimma Adetshina, and her Mozambican-born mother.
They are also facing probable fraud charges.
On Tuesday, the department informed Parliamentโs portfolio committee that its completed investigation was handed to the Hawks.
Adetshinaโs case reached Parliament in August when the public questioned her heritage and nationality after she became a finalist in the Miss SA pageant.
Home Affairs Director General Tommy Makhode said the Adetshinas did not respond to Mondayโs deadline to make representations as to why they should keep their South African national documents.
Makhode said officials visited a house registered to Adetshina to track down her mother.
The department believes sheโs still in South Africa.
But it canโt explain how she may have travelled to Nigeria last month to support her daughter at Miss Universe Nigeria pageant which she won.
The department says photographs taken at the event and posted on social media appear to confirm Adetshinaโs mother left South Africa during the investigation. Nothing has been said of her Nigerian-born father.
โWe couldnโt find a trace of the passport that she has been using to come to South Africa from Mozambique on the movement to Nigeria,โ said the acting Deputy Director-General for immigration, Albert Matsaung.
Meanwhile, Mondayโs social media posts show Adetshina was en route to Mexico from the US where sheโs been participating in the Miss Universe pageant.
