An Irish budget airline is removing a language requirement for South African passport holders traveling to the United Kingdom. Ryanair had been making those passengers pass a written test in Afrikaans ...
This is all in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Afrikaans being recognised as an official language in South Africa. In light of this, Virseker’s campaign features two original birthday songs ...
Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...
We never fabricated apartheid. The landing of Jan van Riebeck at the Cape in 1652 made it very difficult for the Dutch and Khoisan people to communicate. In this engagement, a language had to be born ...
Ryanair says move to curb entry of fraudulent passport holders Afrikaans spoken by only 12% of South Africans South African government clamping down on fake documents DUBLIN/JOHANNESBURG, June 6 ...
LONDON — Budget airline Ryanair says it's forcing South African travelers to the U.K. to do a test in the Afrikaans language to prove their nationality in an apparent effort to weed out those with ...
As the fallout from UK airline Ryanair's decision to test South African passport holders' general knowledge in Afrikaans continues, the Afrikaans Language Board says the quiz had major implications ...
The South African government has attacked Ryanair's decision to quiz passengers in Afrikaans. The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa said it was "taken aback," Reuters reported. Ryanair ...
ATM director Michael Jonas and council chair Jean Meiring write that the bad old days when the Afrikaans Language Museum and Monument (ATM) was associated with Afrikaner nationalism are long gone and ...
Ryanair made Dinesh Joseph take a test in Afrikaans when flying back from a vacation. The airline has said it is issuing the tests to guard against fraudulent South African passports. This is how ...
Charlize Theron has been facing some backlash for claiming that her first language, Afrikaans, is dying out. The 47-year-old actor opened up about growing up in South Africa while appearing on ...