After intense backlash for making South African passport holders do an Afrikaans quiz to prove they are South Africans and their passports aren’t fake, budget airline Ryanair has dropped the quiz.
, which “from a sociolinguistic perspective was absurd”, said Conrad Steenkamp, the CEO of the Afrikaans Language Board.
“There are 20 million people who understand Afrikaans, which means the remainder of the population wouldn’t be able to take the test,” Steenkamp toldSouth Africa has 11 official languages. About 12% of the population speak Afrikaans as a first language in South Africa, while 25% of the population speak isiZulu.he BBC: “We have ended the Afrikaans test because it doesn’t make any sense.”
Anyone who failed the test was refused travel and refunded the cost of their ticket. Ryanair initially defended the test, saying it received a fine for every passenger found to have travelled on a fake passport.Petronia Reddy, who was travelling to Ireland from the UK, said she was told if she was unable to fill in the form, it proved she wasn’t South African.“Such tests are ludicrous. Next, they’ll be asking everyone to prove their South Africanness through DNA tests.
When the Minister of Home Affairs, Aaron Motsoaledi, gave the department’s Budget Vote speech earlier this month, he said the department remained “unflinching” in its commitment to fight corruption.
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