Huguenots in South Africa

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French South Africans

Sud-africains français Franse Suid-Afrikaners
Commemorating 300 years of Huguenot history in South Africa
Regions with significant populations
Western Cape · Gauteng · Free State · Limpopo
Languages
South African English · French · Afrikaans
Religion
Christianity (mainly Calvinism)
Related ethnic groups
French Canadians (Québécois), Afrikaners, Walloons, Cajuns, Caledonians, French, Louisiana Creoles, Pieds-Noirs, Romands

Many people of European heritage in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but were absorbed into the Afrikaner and Afrikaans-speaking population, because they had religious similarities to the Dutch colonists.