2.11 Home language across provinces (percentages)

 

Eastern
Cape

Free
State

Gauteng

Kwazulu-
Natal

Mpuma-
langa

Northern
Cape

Northern
Province

North
West

Western
Cape

South
Africa

Afrikaans

10.3

6.5

20.9

2.3

4.0

9.9

1.9

4.3

39.8

100.0

English

6.7

1.0

27.4

38.1

1.6

0.6

0.6

1.0

23.0

100.0

IsiNdebele

0.2

0.8

19.6

0.2

59.0

0.0

12.4

7.3

0.5

100.0

IsiXhosa

73.0

3.4

7.6

1.8

0.5

0.7

0.1

2.5

10.4

100.0

IsiZulu

0.3

1.4

17.0

72.4

7.7

0.0

0.4

0.9

0.0

100.0

Sepedi

0.1

0.1

18.6

0.0

7.9

0.0

69.6

3.6

0.0

100.0

Sesotho

4.5

52.4

30.7

1.5

2.9

0.2

1.8

5.5

0.5

100.0

SiSwati

0.1

0.4

9.1

0.7

82.3

0.0

5.6

1.7

0.1

100.0

Setswana

0.0

5.2

17.4

0.1

2.3

5.0

2.1

67.8

0.1

100.0

Tshivenda

0.1

0.2

11.4

0.1

0.4

0.0

86.5

1.4

0.0

100.0

Xitsonga

0.0

0.8

21.8

0.1

5.6

0.0

62.8

8.9

0.0

100.0

Other

5.3

3.3

42.5

16.9

4.6

2.8

5.8

7.9

10.9

100.0

Unspecified

9.8

4.2

23.4

21.1

6.4

2.0

14.7

5.5

12.8

100.0

Total

15.5

6.5

18.1

20.7

6.9

2.1

12.1

8.3

9.7

100.0

• The table is read as follows: among Afrikaans speakers the first row shows that 10% live in Eastern Cape, and 21% in Gauteng. It shows for example that among IsiXhosa speakers, 73% live in Eastern Cape.