Miss SA Mia le Roux: 'No-one deserves to be bullied' – BBC Africa

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Miss SA Mia le Roux: 'No-one deserves to be bullied' – BBC Africa


Mia le Roux became the first deaf woman to be crowned Miss South Africa. “It wasn’t just me that won that night, but anyone who has felt different,” she told the BBC. The pageant was a divisive one which saw one finalist withdraw after being trolled over her Nigerian heritage. The winner displayed solidarity towards Chidimma Adetshina, her…

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  1. The former President Nelson Mandela declared this country a Rainbow Nation 🇿🇦✊🏾.We recognuse all races for the contribution they added to build this country.

    We support Mia,she is born and bred in South Africa, She's representative of the culture in this country.

  2. ❤ Mia is our golden girls she is not only beautiful outside bug inside too.🇿🇦🤟we love you Mia .She is right to let home affairs deal with any investigations ,and be kind to someone who dhe obviously came to know .

  3. To all bitter Nigerians, Nelson Mandela fought for all races to live together, he's the one that came up with rainbow nation. Nigerians were paid back by welcoming them here but misused our kindness.

  4. Miss South Africa is not chosen because of merit and not on race. This is why we are the only country with three Miss Universe crowns, two miss world crowns and a Miss Supranational crown. When other African countries are chosen because of race and beauty and walks. We choose women who can stand on a stage and spark to politicians

  5. The strange part of it all is that Mia is compassionate towards the plight of Chidimma & is publicly condemning her being bullied while most Nigerians are busy mocking the Miss SA organization for picking "A WHITE WOMAN". That's another day in Africa! The irony of it all!!

  6. SA is not called the rainbow nation for nothing.The history of South Africa & other SADEC countries like Zimbabwe means that white people did not just dissapear when apartheid ended. How is this a shock, can people stop being rasist. Mia is South African the same way you find Black UK citizens , Black French nationals and Black American ect. It was about citizenship and national pride not race. If you watch the showhighlughts you see how she won

  7. You said so called Black SA?

    You mean the Indigenous Black South Africans who own the country, compare to your Apartheid colonisers who stole the country off Black South Africans. @jamesedi9338

  8. Zimbabweans have chased away white people in their own country and they followed them to South Africa to work for them again and Africa does not have many white people as South Africa so is the rest of Africa they think we as citizens should chase them away but we love them and they are citizens of the country but stealing identities is something that we do not want whether black or white so one day someone else will benefit because the parents stole the identity document of someone else rather loose the rest of the continent and stay with the right ones in South Africa

  9. Lets put the hearing problem aside guys.
    Look, what determines who a south african is? Blood or land, sanguinis or soli?

    Depending on your answer, therein lays the answer to the chidima saga.

    My personal opinion, chidima's citizenship had nothing to do with this, its the hate that most South Africans, and some Africans in general have against there fellow Africans that has everything to do with this. Pretty much what the political borders have done. A competitive nature has been instilled in most Africans[SA and Naija mostly, cause i see this rampant in these two] to the extent that they literally hate each other, for no apparent reason. Booming economies, the people have morale to compete so they fight. However, lessons like the Rwandan genocide need to be taught in African schools to teach what happens when you hate each other.

    Then there is the issue of an inferior complex. Black on black feels equal, so they argue it out. Even mere shops get burnt if it is owned buy a Rwandanese, Zambian, Kenyan etc, so long as they are black in color but if it is a white man's store, they sing shaka anthems past it. That there is an inferior mindset. Not advocating for violence against white folks but if you are wise, you understand what I mean.

    My solution? Administration, top down, need to hold a reform in schools to teach children that when you fly in a plane, you won't see any border. That your parent's parent's parent's are probably immigrants and so there is no need to hate an immigrant you see,cause you probably one too. If this is done, 50 years from now, we will record few cases of hate.

    Cheers to the show organizers, they chose the perfect winner to calm the storm,lol. You want to talk but you know God wont let you scoot freely talking ill of a disadvantaged person 😂😂.

    ***Now i haven't called anyone Xenophobic, but i have described Xenophobia so in your own wisdom, you can decide what is and what is not.