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The South African National Census of 2011 counted 2,710,461 white South Africans who speak Afrikaans as a first language, [2] or approximately 5.23% of the total South African population. The census also showed an increase of 5.21% in Afrikaner population compared to the previous, 2001 census.
Afrikaans was also a medium of instruction for schools in Bophuthatswana, an Apartheid-era Bantustan. [45] Eldoret in Kenya was founded by Afrikaners. [46] There are also around 30,000 South-Africans in the Netherlands, of which the majority are of Afrikaans-speaking Afrikaner and Coloured South-African descent. [47]
It includes countries, which have Afrikaans and/or Dutch as (one of) their nationwide official language(s), as well as dependent territories with Afrikaans and/or Dutch as a co-official language. Worldwide, Afrikaans and Dutch as native or second language are spoken by approximately 46 million people.
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My ouers is beide Afrikaans, en ek het in Windhoek skoolgegaan tot en met derde graad ... drie was Afrikaans die enigste taal. Daar is 'n privaatskool wat net Afrikaans doen. Ek dink, en ek kan reg of verkeerd wees met my statistiek, maar dat Namibia per capita , per duisend mense, die meeste Afrikaans praat in die wêreld.
Afrikaners in Zimbabwe are the descendants of Afrikaans speaking migrants to Zimbabwe, almost all of whom originated from the Cape Colony, Orange Free State and Transvaal in modern South Africa. [2] At their peak they formed 10-15% of white Zimbabweans , but only a small fraction of the greater population.
In contemporary South Africa, Boer and Afrikaner have often been used interchangeably. [dubious – discuss] Afrikaner directly translated means African, and thus refers to all Afrikaans-speaking people in Africa who have their origins in the Cape Colony founded by Jan Van Riebeeck. Boer is a specific group within the larger Afrikaans-speaking ...
English: Density of people in South Africa who speak Afrikaans as their first language, according to Census 2011 at electoral ward level. <1 speaker/km² 1–3 speakers/km²