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South Africans
Total population
~915,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
United Kingdom
>217,180 (2021)[2]
Australia
189,207 (2021)[3]
United States
123,461 (2021)[4]
United Arab Emirates
~100,000 (2014)[5]
New Zealand
71,382 (2018)[6]
Canada
51,590 (2021)[7]
Netherlands
41,300 (2023)[8]
Israel
22,315 (2021)[9]
Languages
South African English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Languages of South Africa
Religion
Christianity (68%), Islam (2%), Hinduism (1.5%) and indigenous beliefs (28.5%)
South Africans are the citizens of South Africa, as well as the global diaspora of South Africa.
People born in South Africa before October 6, 1995, are South African citizens.[10]
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^"International migration, England and Wales: Census 2021". Office for National Statistics.
^"People in Australia who were born in South Africa". Australian Bureau of Statistics.
^"B05006PLACE OF BIRTH FOR THE FOREIGN-BORN POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES". United States Census Bureau.
^"UAE's population - by nationality". BQ Magazine. Archived from the original on 2017-03-21.
^"2018 Census totals by topic – national highlights". Statistics New Zealand. Archived from the original on 2019-09-23.
^"Immigrant population by selected places of birth, admission category and period of immigration, 2021 Census". Statistics Canada.
^"Population; sex, age, country of origin, country of birth, 1 January". Statistics Netherlands.
^"IMMIGRANTS,(1) BY PERIOD OF IMMIGRATION, COUNTRY OF BIRTH AND LAST COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE" (PDF). Central Bureau of Statistics.
such as Portuguese, Greek, or German. White SouthAfricans are by far the largest population of White Africans. White was a legally defined racial classification...
Black SouthAfricans. The remaining population consists of Africa's largest communities of European (White SouthAfricans), Asian (Indian SouthAfricans and...
Great SouthAfricans was a SouthAfrican television series that aired on SABC3 and hosted by Noeleen Maholwana Sangqu and Denis Beckett. In September 2004...
SouthAfricans are the citizens of SouthAfrica, as well as the global diaspora of SouthAfrica. People born in SouthAfrica before October 6, 1995, are...
those who classify themselves Black or indigenous SouthAfricans, Africans or Black people of SouthAfrica, but they are not culturally or linguistically...
Chinese SouthAfricans (simplified Chinese: 华裔南非人; traditional Chinese: 華裔南非人) are Overseas Chinese who reside in SouthAfrica, including those whose ancestors...
brought to SouthAfrica from India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, and China. The Population Registration Act, (Act 30 of 1950), defined SouthAfricans as belonging...
started in 1652. Before universal suffrage was achieved in 1994, White SouthAfricans, especially Afrikaners during the period of Apartheid, enjoyed various...
A/HRC/15/37/Add.2.. Parkinson, Christian (2016-06-14). "The first SouthAfricans fight for their rights". BBC News. Most [Khoisan people] now speak Afrikaans...
SiLaNgomane, SheKgalagari, XiRhonga, SeKopa (Sekgaga), and others. Most SouthAfricans can speak more than one language, and there is very often a diglossia...
SouthAfricans in the United Kingdom include citizens and residents of the United Kingdom with origins in SouthAfrica. According to the 2011 UK census...
as White SouthAfricans (formally classified as "European"), Black SouthAfricans (formally classified as "Native", "Bantu" or simply "African" and comprising...
feeling a sense of obligation to British SouthAfricans. Salisbury also detested the Boers treatment of native Africans, referring to the London Convention...
case of reverse brain drain a net 359,000 high-skilled SouthAfricans have returned to SouthAfrica from foreign work assignments over a five-year period...
This is a list of notable and famous SouthAfricans who are the subjects of Wikipedia articles. Shulamith Behr, art historian (1946–2023) Estian Calitz...
Cuba (4.0%), 9. Canada (3.0%), and 10. China (2.0%). A number of White SouthAfricans, most of them skilled, left the country in the years preceding and following...
with SouthAfricans living in a slaughter house as bloodbath continues". Action Society. 17 November 2023. Retrieved 3 January 2024. "SouthAfrica: The...
of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Most English-speaking SouthAfricans were opposed to the creation of a republic, many of them voting "no"...
served in either German South-West Africa, East Africa, the Middle East, or on the Western Front in Europe. Over 7,000 SouthAfricans were killed, and nearly...
approximately 123,461 people born in SouthAfrica who were living in the United States. The majority of overseas SouthAfricans live in the United Kingdom, Australia...
Portuguese SouthAfricans (Portuguese: luso-sul-africanos) are SouthAfricans of Portuguese ancestry. The exact figure of how many people in SouthAfrica are...
number of White SouthAfricans who speak Afrikaans as a first language in the SouthAfrican National Census of 2011. Afrikaans, SouthAfrica's third most widely...
the first SouthAfricans to win the prestigious award. England's next tour of SouthAfrica came about in 1909–10. Once again, SouthAfrica was dominant...
The following Forbes list of SouthAfrican billionaires is based on an annual assessment of wealth and assets compiled and published by Forbes magazine...
Asians in SouthAfrica speak South Asian languages, such as Bhojpuri, Tamil, Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu and Telugu. Although many SouthAfricans are of Huguenot...