2.12 Country of birth by province*

 

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

* Excluding institutions
** Southern African Development Community

Percentage of the population not born in South Africa in each province and in South Africa overall – October 1996*
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• Altogether, 2% of the people enumerated in South Africa on census night were not born in South Africa (right-hand column of the graph). Gauteng (second last column from the right) contains the largest proportion of people who were not born in South Africa (5%), while Eastern Cape contains the lowest proportion (less than half a percentage point).