When flying Air Namibia from Jo'burg to Windhoek I got slugged for R100 per firearm as a "firearms carriage fee".

Has anyone else ever had such a fee imposed on them?

I know it annoyed me. Not only the additional cost but also the fact they wouldn't accept foreign currency. I didn't have even Rand on me yet, so had to go to another floor of the airport to find a forex bureau, change money into Rand and then back to the British Airways office (BA's office was handling the Air Namibia fees).

I have never heard of this fee before on the net neither had Karl Stumpfe the PH in Namibia.