UNBREAKABLE!: A Demography of South Africa's Minorities

The AMC is a group dedicated to protecting & preserving the rights of ALL minorities in South Africa. Jacob Zuma has publicly stated that " the Majority have more rights than the Minority!"- And WHO are the minorities in the New South Africa? - Well lets see... Theres the Khoi San, The Griquas, The Coloreds, The Asians, The Italians, The British, The Afrikaners, The other Eur Africans, the Pedi, The Shangaan, The Jews & The Muslims, The South Sotho, The Venda...The Born Again Christians,the Hindus...The Single Mothers, the homeless, the unemployed... the disenfranchised-the refugees now..thats a lot of MINORITIES..in fact, I would say it works out to around 20-30 million people in a country of 50 million people... perhaps around half...perhaps even the majority.... so until we protect our minorities in the new south Africa...we will not have a free and Democratic South Africa. We have given the ANC 20 years to rule and they have messed it up. ITS TIME FOR CHANGE! VOTE THE AMC!

A DEMOGRAPHIC OF MINORITIES IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA

1. " COLOURED" Population: 4,539,790 (2011; estimated)[1]

In the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruin Afrikaners in Afrikaans) refers to an heterogeneous ethnic group who possess ancestry from Europe, various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa, as well as peoples of West Africa, Indonesia, Madagascar, Malaya, India, Mozambique, Mauritius, and Saint Helena.[2]

Besides the extensive combining of these diverse heritages in the Western Cape — in which a distinctive Cape Coloured and affiliated Cape Malay culture developed — in other parts of Southern Africa, their development has usually been the result of the meeting of two distinct groups. Genetic studies suggest the group has the highest levels of mixed ancestry in the world.[3][4] However, the maternal (female) contribution to the Coloured population, measured by mitochondrial DNA studies, was found to come mostly from the Khoisan population.[5][6]

2.ASIAN:1 274 867 (2011; estimated)[1]
2.5% of South Africa's population

The majority of the Asian South African population is Indian in origin, most of them descended from indentured workers transported to work in the 19th century on the sugar plantations of the eastern coastal area, then known as Natal. They are largely English speaking, although many also retain the languages of their ancestors. There is also a significant group of Chinese South Africans (approximately 300,000 individuals), of whom the great majority are recent immigrants of the last two decades.

In total the 1.2 million Asians in South Africa represent about two per cent of the nation's population. Most are of Indian or South Asian origin, although there is also a rapidly increasing number of people of Chinese and other East Asian origin (sometimes classified as Coloured (mixed race) or White under Apartheid). Traditionally the group does not include the "Cape Malays", who were descended (at least in part) from South East Asians, who were classified as "Coloured" under apartheid.

3.Eur-Africans:(European South Africans):4,586,838 [1]

8.9% of South Africa's population[1

White South African is a term which refers to people from South Africa who are of European descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as being part of another racial group, for example, as Coloured.[2] In linguistic, cultural and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of mainly Dutch, German and French settlers, known as Afrikaners, and the English-speaking Anglo-Africans who share an Anglophone background (mainly of British and Irish descent). South Africa's white population is divided into 61% Afrikaans-speakers, 36% English-speakers, and 3% who speak another language,[3] most notably Portuguese. European South Africans are by far the largest European-descended population group in Africa.

Sub group: 3,600,000 (estimated)
Afrikaners (including the Boer subgroup[6]) are an ethnic group in Southern Africa whose native tongue is Afrikaans: a Germanic language which derives primarily from 17th century Dutch, and a variety of other languages.[7] [8] They are descended from Dutch Calvinists, Germans and French Huguenots, also Frisians, English, and minor numbers of other Europeans and non-European slaves and indentured servants [9][10] During the Apartheid era, race classification was based on appearance and there were many borderline cases.[11]

South Africans of British descent are considered a separate ethnic group from Afrikaners, and their first language is English.

4.PEDI:4,204,358 (2001 Census)

Pedi (also known as Bapedi, Bamaroteng, Marota, Basotho, Northern Sotho - in its broadest sense), has been a cultural/linguistic term - previously used to describe the entire set of people speaking various dialects of the Sotho language who live in the northern Transvaal of South Africa, more recently, the term "Northern Sotho" has replaced "Pedi" to characterize this loose collectivity of groups.

The Northern Sotho have been subdivided into the high-veld Sotho, which are comparatively recent immigrants mostly from the west and southwest, and the low-veld Sotho, who combine immigrants from the north with inhabitants of longer standing. The high-veld Sotho include the Pedi (in the narrower sense), Tau, Kone, Roka, Ntwane, Mphahlele, Tšhwene, Mathabathe, Kone (Matlala), Dikgale, Batlokwa, Gananwa (Mmalebogo), Mmamabolo, and Moletše. The low-veld Sotho include the Lobedu, Narene, Phalaborwa, Mogoboya, Kone, Kgakga, Pulana, Pai, Kutswe. Groups are named by using the names of totemic animals and, sometimes, by alternating or combining these with the names of famous chiefs.

Pedi in the narrowest sense, refers more to a political unit than to a cultural or linguistic one: the Pedi polity included the people living within the area over which the Maroteng dynasty established dominance during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Even this narrower usage should not be understood in a rigid sense because many fluctuations occurred in the extent of this polity's domination during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and processes of relocation and labor migration have resulted in the widespread scattering of its former subjects.

4.VENDA: 3.5 million people

The Venda were originally from either the Congo or the East African Rift, migrating across the Limpopo river during the Bantu expansion.[3] [4]

5.SOTHO: 3,544,304 (2001 Census)

The ancestors of the Sotho people (Basotho or Basuto) have lived in southern Africa since around the fifth century. The Sotho nation emerged from the accomplished diplomacy of Moshoeshoe I who gathered together disparate clans of Sotho–Tswana origin that had dispersed across southern Africa in the early 19th century. Most Sotho today live in South Africa, as the area of the Orange Free State was originally part of Moshoeshoe's nation (modern-day Lesotho).

6. TSWANA:3,544,304 (2001 Census)

Tswana or Setswana is a language spoken in Southern Africa by about 4.5 million people.[2] It is a Bantu language belonging to the Niger–Congo language family within the Sotho languages branch of Zone S (S.30), and is closely related to the Northern- and Southern Sotho languages, as well as the Kgalagadi language and the Lozi language.

7.SHANGAAN/ TSONGA : 1.5 MILLION
The Tsonga people speak the Tsonga language (Xitsonga) Although many Tsongas are Christian, many also adhere to their own traditional religion, which entails constant attention to the propitiation of ancestral spirits. Illness and other misfortunes are usually attributed to the breaking of a taboo, to the anger of an ancestor, or to sorcery.[1]

The Tsongas are a diverse population, generally including the Shangaan (VaChangana), Thonga, Tonga (unrelated to another nearby Tonga population to the north), and several smaller ethnic groups.[2] In the mid-1990s, they numbered about 1.5 million in South Africa and at least 4.5 million in southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe.[2]

Sometimes, the definition of Tsonga is extended to include the closely related Ronga and Tswa peoples of Mozambique.[3]

8.SWAZI:3,500,000 ( TOTAL )- AROUND 1.5 MILLION IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Swazi are an Nguni-speaking people in southeastern Africa, chiefly in Swaziland and South Africa and some in Mozambique. Besides their language, Siswati, they speak Afrikaans in South Africa, English in South Africa and Swaziland, and Portuguese in Mozambique and South Africa as second languages. More Swazi live in South Africa than in Swaziland. The Swazi are religiously diverse and tolerant.[1]

9.NDEBELE:703,906 (2001 Census)

The Ndebele are part of the larger Nguni ethnic group. They are thought to have travelled from Natal to the Transvaal region, led by a chief called Musi and settling near Pretoria in about 1600. In the mid-seventeenth century, the nation split over a succession dispute between his two sons, Manala and Ndzundza.

In 1882, following friction with Voortrekker settlers over land and other resources, the Boer leader Piet Joubert led a campaign against the Ndebele leader Nyabela. Nyabela was imprisoned, finally being released in the late 1890s, and many of his people were indentured to white farmers.

During the apartheid era, Nyabela's successor as leader, Cornelius, was forcibly moved with his people to a tribal "homeland" called KwaNdebele, which was given nominal self-government.

People with the last name Ndebele are considered royal.[citation needed]

10.Refugees, Illegal Immigrants, Homeless squatters :

It is estimated that South Africa harbours at least five million illegal immigrants, although some estimates increase this figure to eight million. It is believed that at least three million of these immigrants are of Zimbabwean origin due to political and economic instability caused by Robert Mugabe's government.[1][2][3] Attacks on foreign nationals increased markedly in late 2007 and it is believed that there have been at least a dozen attacks since the start of 2008. A series of anti-immigrant riots occurred in South Africa beginning on 11 May 2008.[4][5] see (Zimbabwean diaspora)

Critics of the South African government have argued that a lack of an effective border policy and repatriation measures have had detrimental economic effects and resulted in social unrest.

Add to this those who live in squatter camps and those in prison as well as those who are not registered at all. The figure of 5 million is reasonable. Of those 5 million many do have false IDs but some do not. Some live legitimately in South Africa and can vote. I estimate this figure at around 1 million.

WHO ARE THE MAJORITY AND HOW MANY OF THEM ARE THERE?

The two main ethnic groups in South Africa are the Xhosas and the Zulus. These two groups hold all the power and no one of other minority groups have been a president of the country or is likely to be for a long time. Most of the contracts and the money as well as the key positions in the ANC are held primarily by Xhosas and secondly by Zulus.

1. ZULU PEOPLE: 10,659,309 (2001 census)[1]

The Zulu (Zulu: amaZulu) are the largest South African ethnic group, with an estimated 10–11 million people living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Small numbers also live in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique. Their language, Zulu, is a Bantu language; more specifically, part of the Nguni subgroup. The Zulu Kingdom played a major role in South African history during the 19th and 20th centuries. Under apartheid, Zulu people were classed as third-class citizens and suffered from state-sanctioned discrimination. They remain today the most numerous ethnic group in South Africa, and now have equal rights along with all other citizens.

2.XHOSA PEOPLE:7.9 million (2001 estimate)

The Xhosa (pronounced [kǁʰɔsɑ] ( listen)) people are speakers of Bantu languages living in south-east South Africa, and in the last two centuries throughout the southern and central-southern parts of the country.

Xhosa-speaking peoples are divided into several tribes with related but distinct heritages. The main tribes are the Mpondo, Mpondomise, Bomvana, Xesibe, and Thembu. In addition, the Bhaca and Mfengu have adopted the Xhosa language.[1] The name "Xhosa" comes from that of a legendary leader called uXhosa. There is also a theory that the word xhosa derives from a word in some Khoi-khoi or San language meaning "fierce" or "angry", the amaXhosa being the fierce people. The Xhosa refer to themselves as the amaXhosa and to their language as isiXhosa.

Thus the POWER and the MONEY is now held by two ethnic groups in the NEW South Africa. I see this as political power primarily- other minorities also have limited political power, less rights. Whilst ALL South AFRICANS can have the possibility to prosper and some do... the fact is the reins of responsibility are in the hands of the " majority"- which are really not the majority at all. This is an illusion. The ANC comprises of minority groups. Yet just as HITLER discriminated against the JEWS because they wee perceived to have all the MONEY and therefore the power... - ethnic groups today are being discriminated against if they are not " black" or black enough... and usually all the major contracts go to people who are either Xhosa OR in the elite strata of the ANC.

There is no " majority " therefore at all. South Africa is a nation comprised of minorities where all South Africans should have EQUAL RIGHTS... but they don't. South Africa has 50 million people- BUT THE ZULUS AND THE XHOSA account for just 17 million. I havnt included in that minority group those who dont vote or who havnt voted yet are South African. This may number as much as 1 million.

If the AFRICAN MINORITY CONGRESS is going to make headway against the ANC we will need to target all minorities who are dissatisfied with the lack of progress of the ANC , the deterioration of public services, unemployment and lack of wealth creation and of course...the rampant corruption of the fatcats elite at the top.

FOR MORE INFO ON ETHNIC GROUPS IN SOUTH AFRICA:

Ethnic groups in South Africa by municipality

A

Afrikaner
Afrikaner-Jews
Anglo-African
Asian South African

B

Balete people
Barokologadi Ba Ga Maotwa
Batau tribe
Bhaca people
Bushmen

C

Cape Coloureds
Cape Dutch
Cape Malay
Chinese South Africans
Coloured People in Namibia

F

Filipinos in South Africa
Fengu people

G

Greeks in South Africa
Griqua people

H

Hlubi people
Honorary whites

H cont.

Huguenots in South Africa

I

Indian South Africans

J

Japanese people in South Africa

K

Khoikhoi
Khumalo clan
Koena tribe
Koreans in South Africa
ǃKung people

L

Lobedu people

M

Mabelane tribe
Makuleke tribe
Memons in South Africa

N

Nama people
Nepalis in South Africa
Ngcoya clan
Norwegian South African

O

Oorlam people

P

Pakistanis in South Africa
Poko people
Pondo people
Portuguese South African

S

Saraiki people
Somalis in South Africa
Sotho people
Sotho–Tswana peoples
South Ndebele people
Strandloper peoples
Surti Muslims
Swazi people

T

Tamil South Africans
Taung tribe
Thembu tribe
Tsonga people
Tswana people
Turks in South Africa

V

Venda people

W

White South African

X

Xhosa people

Z

Zimbabweans in South Africa
Zulu people