2.5 Population group by province (numbers)

 

Eastern
Cape

Free
State

Gauteng

Kwazulu-
Natal

Mpuma-
langa

Northern
Cape

Northern
Province

North
West

Western
Cape

South
Africa

African
/Black

5,448,495

2,223,940

5,147,444

6,880,652

2,497,834

278,633

4,765,255

3,058,686

826,691

31,127,631

Coloured

468,532

79,038

278,692

117,951

20,283

435,368

7,821

46,652

2,146,109

3,600,446

Indian
/Asian

19,356

2,805

161,289

790,813

13,083

2,268

5,510

10,097

40,376

1,045,596

White

330,294

316,459

1,702,343

558,182

253,392

111,844

117,878

222,755

821,551

4,434,697

Un-
specified
/Other

35,849

11,262

58,654

69,423

16,120

12,208

32,904

16,635

122,148

375,204

Total

6,302,525

2,633,504

7,348,423

8,417,021

2,800,711

840,321

4,929,368

3,354,825

3,956,875

40,583,573

Number of people in each province by population group – October 1996
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• Africans constitute the majority population in all provinces except two, Western and Northern Cape, where coloureds form the majority.