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South African census figures suggest a growing number of first language
Statistics South Africa: 2001 Census
South African census figures suggest a growing number of first language Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gr ...
speakers in all nine provinces, a total of 6.85 million in 2011 compared to 5.98 million a decade earlier. 2001 Namibia
Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...
n census reported that 11.4% of Namibians had Afrikaans as their home language. In 2020 many deaths made the population go down. But the Afrikaans support each other, hoping to make the population higher.
The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) projects that a growing majority will be Coloured
Coloureds ( af, Kleurlinge or , ) refers to members of multiracial ethnic communities in Southern Africa who may have ancestry from more than one of the various populations inhabiting the region, including African, European, and Asian. South ...
Afrikaans speakers. Afrikaans speakers enjoy higher employment rates than other South African language groups, despite half a million who are unemployed.
2001 census
The number of Afrikaans speakers according to the census of 2001 in South Africa by district municipal boundaries were as follows:References
{{Reflist Afrikaans Demographics of South Africa