{"id":8413,"date":"2022-06-09T16:12:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ryanair-afrikaans-test-airline-stands-by-south-african-language-quiz"},"modified":"2022-06-09T17:15:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T17:15:10","slug":"ryanair-afrikaans-test-airline-stands-by-south-african-language-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ryanair-afrikaans-test-airline-stands-by-south-african-language-quiz","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair Afrikaans test: Airline stands by South African language quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Botswana. <\/strong><\/span>Irish budget airline Ryanair says it is still insisting that all South Africans travelling on flights to the UK must prove their nationality by taking a test in the Afrikaans language.<\/b><\/p>\n

The policy has caused outrage in South Africa, where many black people associate Afrikaans with the days of white-minority rule.<\/p>\n

South Africa has 11 official languages and Ryanair has not explained why it chose Afrikaans.<\/p>\n

The airline runs flights around Europe.<\/p>\n

In a statement to the BBC, Ryanair said it had to carry out the extra test because of “substantially increased cases of fraudulent South African passports being used to enter the UK”.<\/p>\n

Any airline found to have taken a passenger to the UK on a fake passport faces a fine of \u00a32,000 ($2,500) from the UK authorities.<\/p>\n

“This is why Ryanair must ensure that all passengers (especially South African citizens) travel on a valid SA passport\/visa as required by UK Immigration,” the airline said.<\/p>\n

The British government says it does not require the extra test to be carried out.<\/p>\n

As well as not explaining why it chose Afrikaans rather than any other South African language, Ryanair did not say whether it carried out similar tests for any other nationality.<\/p>\n

Only around 13% of South Africans speak Afrikaans as a first language, according to a 2011 census – making it the country’s third-most spoken mother tongue, after Zulu and IsiXhosa.<\/p>\n

The quiz contains questions such as what is South Africa’s international dialling code, what is its capital city and who is the current president of the country.<\/p>\n

Anyone who fails is refused travel and refunded the cost of their ticket.<\/p>\n

South African citizen Dinesh Joseph told the BBC how he was “seething” with anger when asked to take the test when flying to the UK from the Canary Islands.<\/p>\n

“It was the language of apartheid,” Mr Joseph told the BBC, saying it was a trigger for him.<\/p>\n

“Being a person of colour, especially from South Africa, you’ve experienced a lot… of racism,” he said.<\/p>\n

The imposition of Afrikaans in schools was the main reason behind the 1976 Soweto Uprising against the apartheid regime, in which at least 170 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren.<\/p>\n

BBC South African reporter Nomsa Maseko says she swore never to speak Afrikaans after leaving school, and that she would have failed the test.<\/p>\n

South Africa has 11 official languages: Zulu, isiXhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, Setswana, English, Sesotho, Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenda and Ndebele.<\/p>\n

Why Afrikaans is so controversial:<\/b><\/p>\n

During apartheid, or white-minority rule, Afrikaans was made mandatory, and an official language of education, alongside English, prompting nationwide protests by black South Africans<\/p>\n

It is no longer obligatory but is an option in schools<\/p>\n

It is the mother tongue of only 13% of South Africans, mainly mixed-race people, known as coloureds, and white South Africans – the descendants of Dutch, German and French settlers who arrived in the 17th Century<\/p>\n

More will be able to understand it but many cannot, and speak one of the 11 other official languages<\/p>\n

English is the language most commonly used officially and in business, according to South Africa’s 2011 census.<\/p>\n

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