Press Release: Afrikaans and English no longer ‘white languages’ - 22nd April 2013.

Apr 22, 2013
Some 4.1 million (or 60%) of people whose home language is Afrikaans are African, coloured, or Indian. Of the 6.9 million people who speak the language at home, only 2.7 million (or 40%) are white, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations.

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