POPULATION GROUPS
The African population is made up of four broad groupings:
The Nguni, comprising the Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele and Swazi people
The Sotho-Tswana, who include the Southern, Northern and Western Sotho (Tswana people)
The Tsonga
The Venda
White South Africans include:
Afrikaners, descendants of Dutch, German and French Huguenot who came to the country from the 17th century onwards.
English-speakers, descendants of settlers from the British Isles who came to the country from the late 18th century onwards.
Immigrants and descendents of immigrants from the rest of Europe, including Greeks, Portuguese, Eastern European Jews, Hungarians and Germans.
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