South Africans are outraged by Ryanair’s Afrikaans test.

South Africans have accused Irish airline Ryanair of discriminating against them by requiring them to take an Afrikaans language test on UK flights.

The country has 11 official languages, and many people claim they don’t understand Afrikaans, which was imposed during white minority rule.

The quiz contains general knowledge questions about South Africa.

Ryanair defended the test, claiming that it weeds out passengers travelling on forged South African passports.

“Due to the high prevalence of fraudulent South African passports,” it said in a statement, “we require passengers travelling to the UK to fill out a simple questionnaire issued in Afrikaans.”

“If they are unable to complete this questionnaire, they will be denied travel and issued a restraining order.”

The report questioned Ryanair about why the test had to be taken in Afrikaans rather than any other South African language, but they did not respond.

The quiz includes questions such as what South Africa’s international dialing code is, what its capital city is, and who the country’s current president is.

The test, which according to one report is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors, is not required by UK border officials.

Conrad Steenkamp, the head of the Afrikaans Language Board in South Africa, called it “absurd.”