President Jacob Zuma (since 2014)
Population: 51,8 million
Languages:
· Afrikaans,
· English,
· isiNdebele,
· isiXhosa,
· isiZulu,
· Sepedi,
· Sesotho,
· Setswana,
· Siswati,
· Tshivenda,
· Xitsonga
Apartheid’s racial
categories, albeit recast on different names and referred to as ‘population
groups’, are still officially used in statistical publications and census data.
Official, mandatory registration and classification into racial groups has been
replaced with racial self-identification. Government affirmative action
policies such as Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Employment Equity make
use of these official racial categorizations. These and other realities point
to the continued difficulty of building an actual ‘Rainbow Nation’ or single
South African nation.
According to the 2011
Census, 79.2% of South Africans (41 million) were ‘Black Africans’, 8.9% were
Coloured (4.62 million), 8.9% were white (4.59 million), 2.5% were ‘Indian or
Asian’ (1.29 million) and only 0.2% (280.4 thousand) who declared another race.
Province
|
Black
|
Coloured
|
White
|
Indian
|
Other
|
Eastern
Cape
|
86.3
|
8.3
|
6.7
|
0.4
|
0.3
|
Free
State
|
87.6
|
3.1
|
8.7
|
.04
|
.02
|
Gauteng
|
77.4
|
3.5
|
15.6
|
2.9
|
.07
|
KwaZuluNatal
|
86.8
|
1.4
|
4.2
|
7.4
|
0.3
|
Limpopo
|
96.7
|
0.3
|
2.6
|
0.3
|
02
|
Mpumalang
|
90.7
|
0.9
|
7.5
|
0.7
|
0.2
|
North
West
|
89.8
|
2.0
|
7.3
|
0.6
|
0.3
|
Northern
Cape
|
50.4
|
40.3
|
7.1
|
0.7
|
1.6
|
Western
Cape
|
32.8
|
48.8
|
15.7
|
1.0
|
1.6
|
Unlike most countries South Africa has 3 Capitals:
Cape
Town, as the seat of Parliament, is the legislative
capital;
Pretoria, as the seat of
the President and Cabinet, is the administrative capital;
Bloemfontein, as the seat of the
Supreme Court of Appeal, is the judicial capital,
(and the Constitutional
Court of South Africa sits in Johannesburg)*Source: 2011 Census Update
