South Africans in the Netherlands (; ) refers to South Africans living in the Netherlands, or Dutch people of South African descent.
History
Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups (Europeans, Africans and Asians) and other white South Africans of non-Afrikaner descent (British, Portuguese etc).
Afrikaners and Coloured South-Africans mainly speak Afrikaans, a daughter language and variant of Dutch from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with loanwords from English, Malay, German, and to a lesser extent also Khoi, San and also from some Bantu languages.
While 21,878 South Africans were still living in the Netherlands on January 1, 2018, this number had increased to 30,902 in October 2021. This made South Africans one of the fastest growing population groups in the Netherlands during this period, the number have since doubled further into more than 40,000 as of 2023.
Demographics +South African born population in the NetherlandsYearTotal1996 9 629 200113 459200615 487201117 527201619 877202128 562202231 693
Notable people Bernard Loots – Cricketer Ferdi and Rob Bolland – Music producer duo Clayton Floyd Colin Ackermann Dik Abed Eric Szwarczynski Marieke Ehlers – Politician Marlene Dumas – Painter Philippe Boissevain Sean Bergin – Musician Sybrand Engelbrecht Stephan Myburgh Tania Leon – Women's rights and anti-Apartheid activist Vincent Brümmer – Theologian Wesley Barresi
See also
Netherlands–South Africa relations South African diaspora Immigration to the Netherlands
References