The society of South Africa and world known south african people

The Society of South Africa, country with the fastest pace of development of all the african countries is really difersified and multicultural. It is formed by many people races – the majority is black people race (about 76 % of the whole socjety). Next, owning to the number of people, there are white people with european roots with 12 % or 13 %. Then there are another important residents of South Africa – people of colour with about 9 % and people with asian roots (a little bit more than 2 % ). The positive majority of the  people of colour lives in the south part of the country and people with asian roots usually live in the Kwa Zulu or Natal province. In most cases they were transported to South Africa by british people, in order to work on sugar cane plantations .

The multucurtualism that exists in South Africa is the reason, for that this is the country where there is for example the biggest percentage of Indian people outside of India.

In that place, besides that all the races live together, there are also many ethnic groups – Nguni, Suazi, Ndebele, Pondo, Xhosa Sotho i Tswana are some of them.

That is why the people of South Africa use so many different languages. Personally I am very interested in languages and it is really improbable and unusual that in one country, the society can use so many different languages, and still be able to communicate between them. How it results from informations that I have found until now, most inhabitants, besides their native language, also can use another one. They have as many as 11 official languages , so I think it is possible that there are also people who use some non-official languages as well.

All of them are: Afrikaans, English (only about 8 % of people and in most cases in big cities) , Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. The last two languages are also the most popular ones.

When it comes to the religion, there apart that there are many languages, there are only many religions in connection with the multiculturalism. The majority of south african society professes Catholicism (but most of them are Protestants). There are also many  

Confessors of local african religions . Another religion groups are Hindu, Islamic, Buddism and Judaism groups.

People usually don’t know a lot about South Africa but I am sure that everyone knows these world famous people (and some of you even didn’t know that they were from South Africa):

1) Nelson Mandela – What I wrote above probably doesn’t refer to this person, because he is a really important personality. Mandela was the well-known south african politician, who had become the symbol of struggle of freedom. He was the part of anty-aparthaid movement, South African president and also he got the Nobel Prize.

2) Greg Du Toit - If someone is interested in photography like me, it can be iterested for them that Greg Du Toit comes from South Africa. I personally love photos that show the beauty of nature and I remember this photographer’s photos very well but I had no idea where he was from, so now I will be able to aprecciate south african nature more looking at his photos.

3) Charlize Theron – The south african actress who, I think, most of you can remember from the movie named ‘’The Devil's Advocate”

or recent and very popular film ‘’Snow White and the Huntsman” that tells the story inspired by the „Mirror Mirror” movie.

So I think South Africa has much more interesting things that we don’t know about and it is really worth it to read something more about this country and to become intrested it it!