Ryanair's South African Test

I noticed this story, typical click-bait outrage, no context as to why this is happening. Ryanair just decided there were too many fake South African passports?

After a bit of googling, it looks like international criminals are bribing South African officials to get high quality passports produced.

SA flagging fake IDs, passports with foreign countries to chase down syndicates | News24

Now, is there any details on what pushed Ryanair to take this unusual and controversial step (e.g. Afrikaans test), when apparently no other airline is concerned about the South African fake passports?

Saw this reported on on UK News sites , there does not appear to any direct from SA or UK authorities but the SA has warned of an enormous increase in FAKE SA Passports circulating. Don't quite understand the Test Ryanair have implemented but at a guess it's motivated by potentially heavy fines if they allow passengers fly with Passports later proven to be false.

But this raises a question.

How is it possible Passengers with Fake Passports are even getting near Boarding areas , surely checking Passports is the primary responsibility of Border, immigration, passport control etc.

That's easy , Corcaigh 😁😁

The passports are made by corrupt SA “home affairs” passport staff, so they apparently are very well made.

But also I’m not sure why the burden of responsibility is with Ryanair. Unless the fines for allowing them fly were so punitive to make them think these checks were worth all the bad publicity etc.

Monumentally stupid decision.

Astonishing that it made it all the way from an idea to an implemented policy.

You've had a minimum 14 years education in your language. I'm sure you'd manage to remember some of it if you really needed to.

I thought Ryanair was expanding into SA when I read the title lol

Meanwhile Ireland remains a nation that allows visa free travel from a place so corrupt that it's become a hub for people trafficking and false documents..... Head in the sand as usual.

In perhaps surprising news, only a minority of Afrikaans speakers are white. The majority are mixed race.