South Africa is a nation of about 55 million (2016) people of diverse origins, cultures, languages, and religions. The last census was held in 2011. South Africa is home to an estimated 5 million illegal immigrants, including some 3 million Zimbabweans.
South Africa hosts a sizeable refugee and asylum seeker population published and Immigrants, this population numbered approximately 144,700 in 2007.[149] Groups of refugees and asylum seekers numbering over 10,000 included people from Zimbabwe , The Democratic Republic of the Congo , and Somalia .These populations mainly lived in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban, Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth.Many refugees have now also started to work and live in rural areas in provinces such as Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.