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The Statistics South Africa Census 2011 showed that there were about 4,586,838 white people in South Africa, amounting to 8.9% of the country's population. [46] This was a 6.8% increase since the 2001 census. According to the Census 2011, Afrikaans was the first language of 61% of White South Africans, while English was the first language of 36 ...
Alan Winde, the Premier of the Western Cape, is an English-speaking white South African. The Western Cape has the second-highest percentage of white people (16%) in South Africa, at 850,000 and the only one with a white premier (governor). The lingua franca is Afrikaans, but some urban areas, especially Cape Town, have a large English-speaking ...
A group of individuals classified as white under the Population Registration Act, 1950 by successive ruling administrations of South Africa during the apartheid period (1948-1994), who held views that made them publicly oppose apartheid informally as citizen activists or as members of anti-apartheid organisations like the ANC.
By 2005, an estimated 212 000 British citizens had sought out new lives in South Africa, growing up to 500 000 by 2011. [28] Between 2000 and 2010 South Africans of European descent returned in large numbers. By May 2014, it was estimated that around 340 000 former South Africans had returned home after immigrating elsewhere in the preceding ...
White South African anti-apartheid activists (2 C, 168 P) Pages in category "White South African people" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 861 total.
Proportion of white South Africans in the population. The inequal distribution of whites hampers the formation of a territorial connected Volkstaat. Predominant language of white South Africans. English (red) is spoken in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and the cities, while Afrikaans (blue) is spoken in rural areas.
English is the second most spoken language among white Africans, spoken by 39% of South Africa's, 7% of Namibia's, and 90% of Zimbabwe's white population. In South Africa they remain the dominant white ethnic group in KwaZulu-Natal, while in Gauteng and the Western Cape they also contribute to a large percentage of the English-speaking population.
They have been joined by black or white South African converts as well as immigrants from other parts of Africa. [39] South African Muslims claim that their faith is the fastest-growing religion of conversion in the country, with the number of black Muslims growing sixfold, from 12,000 in 1991 to 74,700 in 2004. [39] [40]