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Ethnic group From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greek South Africans are South Africans of Greek ancestry from Greece and Cyprus.
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Total population | |
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120,000 (estimate)[1] 50,000-60,000 (estimate)[2] 120,000 (estimate, 1970)[3] | |
Languages | |
Religion | |
Greek Orthodox Church | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Mediterraneans, Turkish South Africans, Italian South Africans, Portuguese South Africans |
Greek immigration to South Africa (at its highest in the 1960s, with 10,790 immigrants) peaked in 1965 (Damanakis 2003). It gradually began to decline in the 1970s, and after 1994 many Greeks returned to Greece to retire, or because they harboured fears about the changing political situation in South Africa. The community has since decreased from an estimated 120,000 to 40,000.[4]
There are multiple Greek Orthodox Churches in South Africa.[6] Some of these include:
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