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Kim Kardashian was nearly stranded in the Motherland after she misplaced her passport during a flight between from Botswana and Johannesburg, South Africa on Wednesday.

The buxom brunette was detained at customs when she couldn’t produce the essential document upon her arrival in the South African capital.

“I left my passport on the plane!” she explains.

“They claimed they looked for it but I had a feeling they didn’t. They called the embassy and said I would have had to sleep at the hotel airport.”

Fortunately for Kim, her NFL-starring BF Reggie Bush saved the day.

“Reggie begged to go check for the passport himself … and he found it!” she says. “He saved the day!”

The couple have joined Kim’s younger sister Khloe on a charity tour of the African continent as part of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons’ Diamond Empowerment Fund.