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 ...

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 ...

Afrikaans is the third most spoken of 11 official languages in South Africa, used by 12 per cent of the 58 million people in the country. It has long been identified with the ideology of apartheid and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Seal was in South Africa, and he spoke in Afrikaans in a viral video. South Africans were delighted to hear the Hollywood actor speak a South African language.

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 ...

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 ...