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  2. Ethnic groups in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. Culture of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa has cultivated a burgeoning astronomy community. It hosts the Southern African Large Telescope, the largest optical telescope in the southern hemisphere. South Africa is currently building the Karoo Array Telescope as a pathfinder for the $20 billion Square Kilometer Array project to be built in South Africa and Australia.

  4. Category:Ethnic groups in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South African culture by ethnicity (4 C) ... Pages in category "Ethnic groups in South Africa" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.

  5. List of ethnic groups of Africa - Wikipedia

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    1996 map of the major ethnolinguistic groups of Africa, by the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division (substantially based on G.P. Murdock, Africa, its peoples and their cultural history, 1959). Colour-coded are 15 major ethnolinguistic super-groups, as follows: Afroasiatic Hamitic (Berber, Cushitic) + Semitic (Ethiopian, Arabic)

  6. Xhosa people - Wikipedia

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    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. Their language, isiXhosa, is one of South Africa's most ...

  7. Khoekhoe - Wikipedia

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    Khoekhoe subdivisions today are the Nama people of Namibia, Botswana and South Africa (with numerous clans), the Damara of Namibia, the Orana clans of South Africa (such as Nama or Ngqosini), the Khoemana or Griqua nation of South Africa, and the Gqunukhwebe or Gona clans which fall under the Xhosa-speaking polities.

  8. List of contemporary ethnic groups - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of contemporary ethnic groups.There has been constant debate over the classification of ethnic groups.Membership of an ethnic group tends to be associated with shared ancestry, history, homeland, language or dialect and cultural heritage; where the term "culture" specifically includes aspects such as religion, mythology and ritual, cuisine, dressing (clothing) style and ...

  9. Pedi people - Wikipedia

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    The Pedi / p ɛ d i / or Bapedi / b æ ˈ p ɛ d i / - also known as the Northern Sotho, [2] Basotho ba Lebowa, bakgatla ba dithebe, [3] Transvaal Sotho, [4] Marota, or Dikgoshi [5] - are a Sotho-Tswana ethnic group native to South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho that speak Pedi or Sepedi, [6] which is one of the 12 official languages in South Africa. [7]