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STANLIB's predecessor was incorporated in 1862 when the Standard Bank of British South Africa was founded in London. It became a South African bank in 1962. Life assurer Liberty Life was founded in 1957. The first unit trust was launched by Guardbank Management Corporation Ltd in 1970.
Cape Flats English (abbreviated CFE) or Coloured English is the variety of South African English spoken mostly in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town. [1] Its speakers most often refer to it as "broken English", which probably reflects a perception that it is simply inadequately-learned English, but, according to Karen Malan, it is a distinct, legitimate dialect of English.
Africa 6,190,280 Yes (English-based creole language) Singapore: SGP Asia 5,469,700 Yes (official language, lingua franca, mostly and widely spoken, and educational) Solomon Islands [2] SLB Oceania 507,000 Yes South Africa [20] ZAF Africa 54,956,900 Yes (official, educational and lingua franca in formal economy) South Sudan [21] SSD Africa ...
The difference between Black and White South Africans is based on their ethnic backgrounds, with them, as BSAE, being originally the first indigenous people that made a ''new'' English South Africa and developing speaking their tongue version of English and deciding not to speak South Africa's native language of English, which is mostly ...
The English-speaking world comprises the 88 countries and territories in which English is an official, administrative, or cultural language. In the early 2000s, between one and two billion people spoke English, [1] [2] making it the largest language by number of speakers, the third largest language by number of native speakers and the most widespread language geographically.
The frontage of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, with text written in eleven of South Africa's twelve official languages A multilingual sign outside the mayor's office in Novi Sad, Serbia, written in the four official languages of the city: Serbian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Pannonian Rusyn A stenciled danger sign in Singapore written in English, Chinese, Tamil, and Malay (the four ...
English: Density of people in South Africa who speak English as their first language, according to Census 2011 at electoral ward level. <1 speaker/km² 1–3 speakers/km²
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.