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Indian South Africans
South Africans descended from British Indian indentured labourers, read as slaves, and migrants / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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![]() Proportion of Indian South Africans in each municipality according to the census | |
Total population | |
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Regions with significant populations | |
KwaZulu-Natal • Gauteng • Western Cape | |
Languages | |
South African English (Home language)
Second languages• Afrikaans • Isizulu • Hindi–Urdu • Tamil • Telugu • Bhojpuri (Naitali) • Awadhi • Gujarati • Kutchi • Bengali • Sindhi • Memoni • Konkani • Marathi • Malayalam • Kannada • Tulu • Punjabi • Marwari • Odia • Other languages of the Indian subcontinent[2] | |
Religion | |
Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Jainism, Zoroastrianism, others[3] | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa, Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Fijians, Indo-Caribbeans, Indian Singaporeans, Malaysian Indians, Indian people, Indian diaspora |
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<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
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0–20%
20–40%
40–60%
70–80%
80–100%
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]