How many white people live in cape town?

Question

Which areas have most white people and are safe for white people, but I can still hang out with my black and coloured friends without any discrimination.

Where are some gated communities in the area?

Answer 1

A rough calculation based on the 2001 census results in approximately half a million.

As an ex-resident of Cape Town you have little fear of discriminatiion from whites in Cape Town, you are more at danger in poor black and coloured areas.

Coloured people account for 48.13% of the population, followed by Black Africans at 31%, Whites at 18.75%, and Asians at 1.43%. 46.6% of the population is under the age of 24, whilst 5% are over the age of 65. The median age in the city is 26 years old, and for every 100 females, there are 92.4 males. 19.4% of city residents are unemployed; 58.3% of the unemployed are black, 38.1% are Coloured, 3.1% are White and 0.5% are Asian

41.4% of Cape Town residents speak Afrikaans at home, 28.7% speak Xhosa, 27.9% speak English, 0.7% speak Sotho, 0.3% speak Zulu, 0.1% speak Tswana and 0.7% of the population speaks a non-official language at home. 76.6% of residents are Christian, 10.7% have no religion, 9.7% are Muslim, 0.5% are Jewish and 0.2% are Hindu. 2.3% have other or undetermined beliefs

Answer 2

Large areas of Cape Town are predominantly white.

Answer 3

Break the law so you can end up safe in jail :)

Answer 4

Seven;

Answer 5

Africans of European Descent

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White Africans

Total population

5,116,400 - 7,360,400 (all countries below added up in highest and lowest figure*Figures do not include Europeans living in

European provinces or dependencies

(Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Madeira, Réunion, Saint Helena)



Regions with significant populations

South Africa 4,360,000 - 5,687,000  

Gabon 157,000  

Angola 120,000 - 210,000  

Namibia 120,000 - 180,000  

Botswana 125,000[1]  

Zambia 125,000[2]  

Morocco 100,000  

Tunisia 100,000  

Libya 100,000 - 150,000  

Mozambique 50,000  

Senegal 50,000  

Côte d'Ivoire 45,000  

Swaziland 33,000  

Kenya 30,000  

Equatorial Guinea 25,000  

Mauritius 23,000  

Zimbabwe 20,000 - 100,000  

Gambia 20,000  

Central African Republic 15,000  

Djibouti 12,000  

Burkina Faso 12,000  

Algeria 10,000  

Niger 10,000  

Tanzania 10,000 - 70,000  

Congo 9,500  

Burundi 7,000  

Chad 5,000  

Sierra Leone 5,000  

Rwanda 2,900  



Languages

French, English, Afrikaans, Kabyle, Portuguese,

German, and others

Religion

Predominantly Christian; minorities practicing Judaism, Islam, or no religion

Related ethnic groups

Dutch, British, French, Portuguese,

Germans, Jews, White Americans,

White New Zealanders, White Latin Americans

White Africans are largely descendants of Europeans who settled on the continent of Africa under colonial rule. These individuals are mostly of Dutch, British, French, Portuguese, and to a lesser extent Italian, Greek, Belgian, Swiss, Spanish, and German ancestry. Prior to the decolonisation movements of the post-WWII era, Whites numbered at least 10 million persons and were represented in every part of Africa. However, many left during and after the indigenous independence movements. Nevertheless, White Africans remain an important minority in many African states, for example, 6% of the population in Namibia.[3] The African country with the largest White African population is South Africa, at approximately 5.2 million (9.6% of the population).[4] Although Whites no longer rule various African nations, many have remained as permanent residents and often hold a substantial ownership of the economy and land in specific regions or countries. It should also be mentioned that various ethnic groups (such as Arabs and Berbers in North Africa) could also be considered Whites under some definitions.[5].

Contents [hide]

1 Dutch people in Africa

2 British people in Africa

3 French people in Africa

4 Portuguese people in Africa

5 Other White African Groups

6 Current Populations (2005 est. From CIA)

7 Languages

8 Sports

9 See also

10 References



[edit] Dutch people in Africa

Further information: Afrikaner and Boer



Romanticised painting of an account of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck, founder of Cape Town.Dutch settlement, under the Dutch East India Company, began in the Cape of Good Hope (present-day Cape Town) in southern Africa in 1652, making it the oldest European culture in Sub-Saharan Africa. By the late nineteenth century, the descendants of the Dutch (known as Afrikaners) had crossed the Limpopo river into Mashonaland, now part of Zimbabwe. In the early 1900s following the Anglo-Boer War, large numbers of Afrikaners travelled north to British East Africa and settled in what is now Kenya and Tanzania, as well as in Angola. Following the Mau Mau insurgency and general collapse of colonial authorities in the decades after the Second World War, Afrikaner colonies outside South Africa and Namibia diminished in size and the majority of settlers and their descendants returned to South Africa.

[edit] British people in Africa

Further information: Anglo-African

Although there were small British settlements along the West African coast from the 1700s onwards, mostly devoted to the commerce of the slave trade, British settlement in Africa began in earnest only at the end of the 18th century, in the Cape of Good Hope. It gained momentum following British annexation of the Cape from the Dutch East India Company, and the subsequent encouragement of settlers in the Eastern Cape in an effort to consolidate the colony's eastern border.

In the late 19th century the discovery of gold and diamonds further encouraged colonisation of South Africa by the British. The search for gold drove expansion north into the Rhodesias (now Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi). Simultaneously, British settlers began expansion into the fertile uplands (often called the "White Highlands") of British East Africa (now Kenya and Tanzania). Most of these settlements were not planned by the British government with many colonial officials concluding they upset the balance of power in the region and left overall imperial interests vulnerable. Cecil Rhodes utilized his wealth and connections towards organizing this ad hoc movement and settlement into a grand imperial policy. This policy had as it's general aim the securing of a Cairo to Cape Town railway system, and settling the upper highlands of East Africa and the whole of Southern Africa south of the Zambezi with British colonies in a manner akin to that of North America and Australasia.



Ian Smith defies the international community, 1975 (photo by W Higham)However, prioritization of British power around the globe in the years before the First World War, initially reduced the resources appropriated toward settlement. The First World War and subsequent Great Depression and the general decline of British and European birthrates further hobbled the expected settler numbers. Nonetheless, thousands of colonists arrived each year during the decades preceding WWII. Despite a general change in British policy against supporting the establishment of European settlements in Africa, and a slow abandonment in the overall British ruling and common classes for a separate and exclusivist European identity, large colonial appendages of European separatist supporters of the British Empire were well entrenched in South Africa, Rhodesia, and Kenya.

In keeping with the general trend toward non-European rule evident throughout most of the globe during the Cold War and the abandonment of colonial positions in the face of American and Soviet pressure, the vestigial remnants of Cecil Rhodes' vision was abruptly ended, leaving British settlers in an exposed, isolated and weak position. Black Nationalist guerrilla forces aided by Soviet expertise and weapons soon drove the colonists into a fortress mentality which led to the break-off of ties with perceived collaborationist governments in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. The result was a series of conflicts which eventually led to a reduced presence of White Africans due to emigration and natural wastage. Many were murdered, tens of thousands driven off their lands and property, with many of those remaining being intimidated and threatened by the government and political and paramilitary organisations. In all, over 2,000,000 White Africans of mostly British descent were killed, pushed out, deported or went into exile from the original British colonies, reversing a process that took place hundreds of years previously. Nonetheless, in all of these areas, a number of well connected extremely wealthy settlers remained to live following independence and the introduction of black rule in the second half of the twentieth century.

There were 60,000 white settlers living in Kenya in 1965.[6] Today, there are an estimated 30,000 whites in Kenya.[7] However, there has been an increasing number of British expatriates that, according to the BBC, number at about 32,000.[8]

Sizeable numbers of Anglo-Africans also live in Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda, Swaziland (3% of the population),[9] Nigeria[10] and Botswana.[11]

[edit] French people in Africa

See also Huguenots in South Africa, French rule in Algeria, Pieds noirs, Franco-Réunionnaise, and Franco-Mauritian

Large numbers of French people settled in French North Africa from the 1840s onwards. By the end of French rule in the early 1960s there were over one million French Algerians of European origin (known as pieds noirs, or "black feet") living in Algeria [2]. No other region of the French African colonial empire attracted similar settlement, although there is still a comparatively large European population living in the former West African colony of Senegal, which has largest French African population in sub-Saharan Africa. There is also an important white minority in Gabon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Togo. An estimated 18,000 French citizens lived and worked in Madagascar in the early 1990s (by independence, the Madagascar’s colons accounted for 70,000 people).[12]

French law made it easy for thousands of colons, ethnic or national French from former colonies of Africa, India and Indochina to live in mainland France. 1.6 million European colons migrated from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.[13]

In Réunion, a French island in the Indian Ocean, white islanders of French origin make up approx. 25% of the population.[14]

A large number of French Huguenots settled in the Cape Colony, following their expulsion from France in the 17th century. However, the use of the French language was banned and the Huguenot settlers were entirely absorbed into Afrikaans culture. However, this early contact can be seen clearly in the names of historic towns, such as Franschhoek in the Western Cape (meaning "French Corner") and in the surnames of many Afrikaners, such as Theron, Du Plessis etc.

[edit] Portuguese people in Africa

Further information: Portuguese Africans, Portuguese Angolans, Portuguese Mozambicans, and Portuguese-South Africans

The first Portuguese settlements in Africa were built in the 15th century. In the late 17th century mu

Answer 6

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