Back Indiese Suid-Afrikaners Afrikaans هنود جنوب إفريقيا Arabic هنود جنوب افريقيا ARZ ভারতীয় দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকান সম্প্রদায় Bengali/Bangla Indové v Jihoafrické republice Czech Inder in Südafrika German Indiens du Natal French India Afrika Selatan ID インド系南アフリカ人 Japanese 인도계 남아프리카 공화국인 Korean
 Proportion of Indian South Africans in each municipality according to the census | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
 1,697,506 (2022 census)[1] 2.74% of South Africa's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| KwaZulu-Natal • Gauteng • Western Cape | |
| Languages | |
| South African English (home language)
Second languages Afrikaans • Isizulu • Tamil • Hindi • Urdu • Telugu • Bhojpuri (Naitali) • Awadhi • Gujarati • Kutchi • Bengali • Sindhi • Memoni • Konkani • Marathi • Malayalam • Kannada • Punjabi • Marwari • Odia • Other languages of the Indian subcontinent[2] | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, others[3] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa, Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Fijians, Indo-Caribbean people, Indian Singaporeans, Malaysian Indians, Indian people, Indian diaspora, South Asian diaspora |
<1 /km²
1–3 /km²
3–10 /km²
10–30 /km²
30–100 /km²
100–300 /km²
300–1000 /km²
1000–3000 /km²
>3000 /km²
0–20%
20–40%
40–60%
70–80%
80–100%
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.[4]
As a consequence of the policies of apartheid, Indian (synonymous with Asian)[5][6][7] is regarded as a race group in South Africa.[8][9]
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- ^ Mukherji, Anahita (23 June 2011). "Durban largest 'Indian' city outside India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 12 May 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
- ^ "Statistical Release P0302: Mid-year population estimates, 2011" (PDF). Statistics South Africa. p. 3.
- ^ Lee, Jennifer (May 2016). "Honorary Whiteness: The Making of a Model Minority - The Socio-Legal Construction of Race & East Asians as Global Outsiders in the Landscape of a Post-Apartheid South Africa" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
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