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    South African census figures suggest a growing number of first language Afrikaans speakers in all nine provinces, a total of 6.85 million in 2011 compared...
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    Transvaal and Orange Free State were predominantly Afrikaans-speaking, Natal was mostly English-speaking and the Cape Province was largely mixed.[citation...
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    African National Census of 2001 South African National Census of 2011 Afrikaans-speaking population of South Africa Jewish population of South Africa...
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  • majority group[need quotation to verify] among white South Africans, or the Afrikaans-speaking population of Dutch origin. Their original progenitors, especially...
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    fourth) language by Black or Indigenous South Africans (which, in South Africa, popularly means SiNtu-speaking populations) living in farming areas. The 2011...
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    South African Bantu-speaking peoples represent the majority indigenous ethno-racial group of South Africans. Occasionally grouped as Bantu, the term itself...
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    Afrikaans (/ˌæfrɪˈkɑːns/ AF-rih-KAHNSS, /ˌɑːf-, -ˈkɑːnz/ AHF-, -⁠KAHNZ) is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser...
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    Boers (redirect from List of Boers)
    BOORZ; Afrikaans: Boere; [ˈbuːrə]) are the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during...
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    Bophirima; Afrikaans: Noord-Wes [ˈnuərt.vɛs]) is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mahikeng. The province is located to the west of the major...
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    of wealth, recent economic expansion and a large and young population make Africa an important economic market in the broader global context. Africa has...
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    the governing party of South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) continuing to classify the population as belonging to one of the three colonial-era...
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    Union of South American Nations (nld) Dutch Language Union (afr/nld) Afrikaans speaking population in South Africa Differences between Afrikaans and Dutch...
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    of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen and the Sān peoples. Khoisan populations traditionally speak click...
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  • South Africa is a culturally and ethnically diverse country with twelve official languages and a population known for its multilingualism. Mixing languages...
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    The population of Africa has grown rapidly over the past century and consequently shows a large youth bulge, further reinforced by increasing life expectancy...
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    Afrikaner and Afrikaans-speaking population, because they had religious similarities to the Dutch colonists. Even before the large-scale arrival of the Huguenots...
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    South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking...
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    Cape Coloureds (category Articles containing Afrikaans-language text)
    group within South Africa, they are the predominant population group in the Western Cape. They are generally bilingual, speaking Afrikaans and English...
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    Central Intelligence Agency as of 2019, 95% of the population aged from 15 and over can read and write in South Africa were respectively literate. The...
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    especially South African English: /əˈpɑːrt(h)eɪt/ ə-PART-(h)ayt, Afrikaans: [aˈpart(ɦ)ɛit] ; transl. "separateness", lit. 'aparthood') was a system of institutionalised...
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    for Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans descended from the Dutch East India Company's original settlers at the Cape of Good Hope. Among some South Africans...
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    The National Party (Afrikaans: Nasionale Party, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which...
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    to Africa, are spoken in South Africa and Namibia (Afrikaans, English, German) and are used as lingua francas in Liberia and the former colonies of the...
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    of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans,...
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    Coloureds (Afrikaans: Kleurlinge) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in South Africa, Namibia and to a lesser extent, Zimbabwe and Zambia...
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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798...
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  • The British diaspora in Africa is a population group broadly defined as English-speaking people of mainly (but not only) British descent who live in or...
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    The Union of South Africa (Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Afrika; Afrikaans: Unie van Suid-Afrika; pronunciation) was the historical predecessor to the present-day...
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    This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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    South Africa is divided into nine provinces. On the eve of the 1994 general election, South Africa's former homelands, known as Bantustans, were reintegrated...
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