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The South African census of 1960 was the final census undertaken in the Union of South Africa. The ethno-linguistic status of some 15,994,181 South African citizens was projected by various sources through sampling language, religion, and race. At least 1.6 million South Africans were white Afrikaans speakers, or 10% of the total population.
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 ...
White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India Company's original colonists, known as Afrikaners, and the Anglophone descendants of predominantly British colonists of South Africa.
Africa Cup of Nations draw LIVE. ... South Africa, Angola, Zimbabwe. Group C ... Morocco’s 1998 African Football of the Year Mustapha Hadji, a champion with Ivory Coast in 2023 and former ...
Geographical distribution of Afrikaans in Namibia. South African census figures suggest a growing number of first language Afrikaans speakers in all nine provinces, a total of 6.85 million in 2011 compared to 5.98 million a decade earlier. [1] 2001 Namibian census reported that 11.4% of Namibians had Afrikaans (Namibian Afrikaans) as their home ...
Orania (Afrikaans pronunciation: [uəˈrɑːnia]) is a white separatist [4] [5] South African town founded by Afrikaners. [6] It is located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of the Northern Cape province. [7]
Found in Central Africa, most African forest elephants live in the Republic of Congo and Gabon. The largest of the two, African savanna elephants live in 23 African countries.
At least thirty-five languages are spoken in South Africa, twelve of which are official languages of South Africa: Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, South African Sign Language, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Zulu, and English, which is the primary language used in parliamentary and state discourse, though all official languages are equal in legal status.