Last December, a rather unsavoury video went viral. In it, a South African woman — a former airline employee — is seen hurling a stream of invective at a fellow passenger on an aircraft, asking the person to “go back to India”. “Indians and the Taj Mahal smell like sh*t,” she says.
In the video, which quickly racked up views on social media, the woman’s heard saying, “I work at the airline… Every time there are Indians on the Durban flights, you guys smell like sh*t. Go back to India.” The airline, confirming the woman was indeed a former employee, condemned the video and her sentiments.