"Thousands of Rands worth of damage was done to an Astra (PC-9) trainer after a hard landing by a student who was repeatedly failed but still allowed to continue the course at the insistence of government officials. (My italics.) After the incident, Minister Lekota (Defence) stated that students who failed in future would be sent to Botswana to determine whether they "did, in fact, fail"."
Easy wasy to get rid of the Racism is to take these new Black Pilots and let THEM be the instructors. You would solve two problems. Eliminate any racism and eliminate most of the aircraft....