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Zulu is the most widely spoken language in South Africa, where it is an official language. More than half of the South African population can understand it, with over 13.78 million first-language and over 15 million second-language speakers. [8] Many Zulu people also speak Xitsonga, Sesotho and others from among South Africa's 12 official ...
They are the second largest ethnic group in South Africa and are native speakers of the isiXhosa language. Presently, over nine million Xhosa-speaking people are distributed across Southern Africa, although their traditional homeland is primarily the Eastern Cape province of South Africa .
Duma Kumalo, South African human rights activist and one of the Sharpeville Six; Dumisani Kumalo, South African politician; Ellen Kuzwayo, political activist; Anton Lembede, political activist; Chief Albert Luthuli, President of the African National Congress and first South African Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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.
Almost all South Africans speak English to some degree of proficiency, in addition to their native language, with English acting as a lingua franca in commerce, education, and government. [1] [2] South Africa has twelve official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken by smaller groups, chiefly Khoisan languages. [3]
The Xhosa often called the "Red Blanket People," are Bantu people living in south-east South Africa and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country. Both the Ndebele of Zimbabwe and the Ngoni migrated northward out of South Africa in the early 19th century, during a politically tumultuous era that ...
Home of the Southern African San "Khoesan languages" from Web Resources for African Languages; Africa's Khoe-San were first to split from other humans; Khoisan people represent 'earliest' branch off human family tree, By Ian Steadman, 24 September 2012. Traditional and Khoi-San Leadership Act, 2019 (in English and Afrikaans)
The larger of the individual Bantu groups have populations of several million, e.g. the large majority of West Africa, notably the most populous African nation Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi (25 million), the Baganda [5] people of Uganda (5.5 million as of 2014), the Shona of Zimbabwe (17.6 million as of 2020), the Zulu of ...