South Africans on Tuesday condemned the African test imposed by Irish low-cost airline Ryanair on South African passengers to prove their citizenship.“Back”. Ryan Air has agreed that South Africans who want to fly to the UK and Ireland should complete a short pre-flight questionnaire in Africa. “Due to the high proportion of fraudulent South African passports”. According to the company, unresponsive passengers were barred from boarding and had their tickets refunded in full.

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The language of the descendants of Dutch immigrants, African is one of the 11 official languages ​​of South Africa, but it is spoken by only about 12% of the population and is deeply associated with the memory of racism.

“We were shocked by the decision of this airline [le gouvernement] We regularly communicate with all airlines to update them on how to validate South African passports, ”and provides a 24-hour call center to assist them, the Home Office said. In a South African press release. “It simply came to our notice then [Ryanair] These services were used before using this backlog profiling system. The Ministry adds.