A Ryanair plane on the runway
ANTI-RACISM campaigners have slammed Ryanair’s “discriminatory” decision to force South Africans to take a UK-entry test in Afrikaans — the official language of the former apartheid state.
Rights group Actsa, the successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement in Britain, has written to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary demanding he immediately withdraw the “appalling” questionnaire and issue an apology.
The budget airline was forced to defend itself after it emerged earlier this week that South Africans were being asked to fill out a test in Afrikaans in order to board Ryanair flights to the UK. It said this was being done to tackle the use of fraudulent passports.
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