Cape Town — Anabela Rungo, the mother of controversial beauty pageant queen, Chidimma Adetshina, was granted bail with strict conditions during her latest court appearance.
Rungo appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court where Magistrate Sadiqah Guendouz grante Rungo R10 000 bail on the condition that she remains under house arrest and can only leave attend court or consult her legal representative, TimesLIVE reported.
Rungo was accused of contravening the Immigration Act and Identification Act. The court had previously heard testimony by an immigration officer who said she failed to respond to correspondence in September 2024, in which she was told that her ID number was being withdrawn and given a chance to object.
“Thank you Jesus,” these were the words sighed by Anabela Rungo, mother of beauty queen and model Chidimma Adetshina, after the court heard that she was granted bail for R10,000 on the condition she remains under house arrest during the court proceedings.@TimesLIVE pic.twitter.com/qP3U649NGW
— Kim Swartz (@KimTracySwartz) February 26, 2025
According to The Citizen, Rungo was prohibited from applying for residency permits or engaging with the Nigerian or Mozambican embassies.
The State also brought an application to recuse Guendouz from eh case, after she was accused of bias and having prior knowledge about the case before Rugno’s arrest.
Rungo’s defence argued that there were no grounds for Guendouz to recuse herself and gave the State time to find out if another magistrate could preside over the case.
Guendouz said that there were no grounds for her recusal either.
“This court could easily recuse itself. What has unfortunately become blatantly embarrassing for the State is that it’s going to find everybody discussed it [the matter] in September. It was the thing that was all over, it was not over yet… Those grounds are not enough,” she said.
The case was postponed to May 8 for further investigation.
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