Katie Hopkins says she has been detained at South Africa passport control for 'spreading racial hatred'

Ella Wills7 February 2018

Katie Hopkins has claimed she has been detained in South Africa for "spreading racial hatred".

The controversial former Apprentice star shared a video on Twitter in which she said she has been held at passport control, with her passport allegedly marked and taken away.

Ms Hopkins said: "At passport control, I’ve been through security and I’ve been detained, my passport has been marked for spreading racial hatred here in South Africa...

"I’m not sure what’s going to happen, they’ve taken my passport away from me but it doesn’t look like at this present time I’ll be allowed to board my flight and leave the country."

She added in a caption to the video: "Detained at passport control on the orders of the African National Congress (ANC). Amazing security co-ordination from a country where police do not respond to white farm murders because they are ‘on lunch break’."

The TV personality was also stopped from entering the country, she said in a separate tweet.

Ms Hopkins collapsed in the streets of South Africa earlier this week after taking ketamine
@KTHopkins/Twitter

The 42-year-old said: "I was detained at Johannesburg airport and had my passport confiscated on the orders of the ANC, trying to prevent me entering the country."

Ms Hopkins is visiting South Africa "to investigate the plight of the white farmer, who is being hunted from his land by gangs of black farm attackers," according to her blog HopkinsWorld.

She later explained she was taking the drug after she dislocated her shoulder.

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