Social Structure in South Africa

In South Africa under the apartheid rule, Caucasian-South Africans were a majority even though South Africa’s population was mostly black South Africans. South Africa is not only consisted of whites and blacks but minorities also include Inkatha, Zulus, Indians, and blacks from two independent homelands. In addition, there are nine more tribal groups that speak dialects of the main languages. The population of South Africa is about 35 million, out of the population 28 million are black.

Present day South Africa has a population with more than 50 million people and a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religious beliefs. In present day South Africa Africans are the majority, making up 79.5% of the population. White and coloured people make up 9% and the remaining 2.5% are the Indian and Asian population.The African population is made up of four broad groupings which include The Nguni, The Sotho-Tswana, The Tsonga, and The Venda. South Africa is a
multilingual country with over 11 languages spoken throughout the
country. The majority of South African’s are Christian followed by a
small percent of Islamic, Hinduism, African tradition belief, and
Judaism beliefs.