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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 ...
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.
It is important to understand that today, not all people of multiracial heritage in South Africa identify as 'Coloured'. Some individuals of mixed heritage prefer to identify as 'Black, 'White', Indian or indigenous [ 18 ] South Africans for example, as they are now free to choose.
They have been joined by black or white South African converts as well as immigrants from other parts of Africa. [40] 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.
1.22 South Africa. 1.23 Tanzania. 1.24 Uganda. 1.25 Zambia. ... This is a list of notable White Africans of European ... missionary to and advocate for the Tswana ...
Critics accuse the town authorities of rejecting the Rainbow Nation concept and trying to recreate apartheid-era South Africa within a White ethnostate. [29] [30] Residents argue that they wish to preserve their own Afrikaner cultural heritage and protect themselves from crime in South Africa. [31] [32] They also reject the "White" label as ...
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.