Overview
- Adetshina was arrested in June after immigration officials said she and her minor son were living in South Africa without lawful status and that she re-entered the country via the Lebombo border.
- Her lawyers filed an affidavit in mid‑July outlining steps she says she took to regularise her status and arguing she has no other home besides South Africa.
- The Department of Home Affairs says it found prima facie evidence that Adetshina’s mother, Anabela Rungo, obtained identity documents by fraud and revoked the family’s South African ID and passports in December 2024.
- The Cape Town Regional Court has postponed the matter to 19 August after a Western Cape High Court ruling limited magistrates’ power to issue immigration detention warrants.
- Legal experts say Section 2(2) of the Citizenship Act offers a possible path to citizenship if Adetshina can prove she was born in South Africa, her birth was registered, and she lived here until age 18, while Home Affairs’ fraud findings, SAPS investigations and child welfare concerns will shape the case’s next steps.