Why I Was Rejected By South Africans – Chidimma Adetshina(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Newly crowned Miss Universe Nigeria, Chidimma Adetshina, has opened up on the reason she was rejected by South Africans who prevented her ambition of becoming Miss South Africa. Adetshina, in an interview with Silverbird TV stated that she was rejected by South Africans because of my Igbo name”. According to her, their rejection led to her withdrawal from the Miss South Africa beauty pageant as she described her experience as “horrible and heartbreaking”. “South Africans felt like I wasn’t South African enough because of my name. “But what I know is that I was born in South Africa and I am a South African.