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Groovy was used to refer to canned soft drinks (after one of the first brands to introduce the container to South Africa) [14]:may refer to a bribe, typically to a traffic cop. creepy crawly Kreepy Krauly Automated pool cleaner. dagga (Pronounced / d æ x ə / or more commonly, / d ʌ x ə /) marijuana. [15] donga
The difference between Black and White South Africans is based on their ethnic backgrounds, with them, as BSAE, being originally the first indigenous people that made a ''new'' English South Africa and developing speaking their tongue version of English and deciding not to speak South Africa's native language of English, which is mostly ...
White South African is a term which refers to people from South Africa who are of European descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as, being part of another racial group (for example, as Coloured).
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 ...
As of the census of 2001, there are 4 293 638 'Whites' and 1 409 690 households in South Africa. Their population density is 4/km 2 and the density of their households is 1,16/km 2. They made up 9,6% of the total population. The percentage of all 'White' households that are made up of individuals is 19,1%. The average household size is 3,05 ...
The following slang words used in South African originated in other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and subsequently came to South Africa. bint – a girl, from Arabic بِنْت. Usually seen as derogatory. buck – the main unit of currency: in South Africa the rand, and from the American use of the word for the dollar.
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.
[19] [20] A crude estimate of the British diaspora population is the number of white South Africans who speak English as a first language, representing 1.6 million people, 36% of the white population group and 3% of the total population in the South African National Census of 2011.