Ryanair says it created the quiz to comply with UK immigration regulations.
Low-cost airline Ryanair has confirmed it asked travellers with South African passports to complete a quiz in Afrikaans before being allowed to board their planes, News24The airline reportedly said it is responsible for ensuring passengers are correctly documented for travel to their destination, per Section 40 of the UK Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
“Our handling agents may request passengers travelling on a South African passport, and who are flagged during procedural security profiling, to complete a simple questionnaire, as an additional safety assessment to confirm whether they are correctly documented before travel,” the airline stated. Although English was the sixth-largest home language , it was the second most-spoken language in South Africa outside the home .Ryanair’s comments to News24about complaints from travellers claiming to have received the test, several of which included photographs of the question paper.
Despite providing the officials with her and her sons’ biometric residence permits, she was forced to leave the airport and return to her daughter when she didn’t score full marks on the test. Ryanair’s test questions are reproduced in the table below. The original Afrikaans is on the left, including poor grammar and typographical errors.Watter van die volgende is Suid-Afrikaanse hoofstede? Wat is Suid-Afrika se amptelike geldeenheid?Name three of South Africa’s official languages.On which side of the road must you drive in South Africa?At is die naam van die grootste stad in Suid-Afrika? [sic]Who is South Africa’s sitting president?Name one of South Africa’s national public holidays.
MyBroadband reached out to the British High Commission in South Africa, the South African High Commission in London, and the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation . None answered their phones or responded to emails.in a post on Twitter that the questionnaire was not a UK government requirement.
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