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South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity. 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 eleven official languages, but other indigenous languages are spoken by ...
These cultural groups are also found across southern Africa. The BaSotho are the majority ethnic group of Lesotho. The Tswana make up the majority of the population of Botswana. The Swazi are the majority in Swaziland. The Tsonga are also found in Southern Mozambique. Zulu people in KwaZulu-Natal.
South Africa's white population increased to over 3,408,000 by 1965, reached 4,050,000 in 1973, and peaked at 5,044,000 in 1990. [18] Density of White South Africans by district in 1922. The number of white South Africans resident in their home country began gradually declining between 1990 and the mid-2000s as a result of increased emigration ...
In “A Young South Africa,” (at the NOW Gallery in London until November 19), work from six photographers and creatives document the diversity of style, talent and thriving subcultures among ...
Afrikaners. Afrikaners (Afrikaans: [afriˈkɑːnərs]) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. [9] Until 1994, they dominated South Africa 's politics as well as the country's commercial agricultural sector. [10] Afrikaans, a language primarily descended ...
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. [11] Many Zulu people also speak Xitsonga, Sesotho and others from among South Africa's 12 official ...
South Africa is known as a "Rainbow Nation" because of its massive diversity of so many different cultures, tribes, religions and nationalities. Due to this massive diversity, Coloureds have different ancestries as they come from different regions of the country with different cultures and that went through different phases of history
The territories shaded blue and green, and those to their east, are those of San peoples. The San peoples (also Saan), or Bushmen, are the members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa, and the oldest surviving cultures of the region. [2] Their recent ancestral territories span Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Zambia ...