| Anton Enus · J.M. Coetzee · Selwyn Pretorius |
| Total population |
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| 104,128 Over 0.4% of the population |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Perth · Melbourne · Sydney · Brisbane · Adelaide |
| Languages |
| Religion |
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Christianity · Hinduism · Islam · Judaism |
| Related ethnic groups |
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Zimbabwean Australian, Kenyan British, Afrikaners, British-South Africans, Indian South Africans, South African American |
South African Australians are residents of Australia who are of South African ancestry.
According to the 2006 Australian census 104,128 Australians were born in South Africa.[1] Also in the Census 79,513 residents claimed South African ancestry, either alone or with another ancestry.[2] Immigration from South Africa to Australia, particularly by professionals, accelerated in the 1990s. The majority of South African immigrants to Australia were of British descent, only a very small percentage, around 2-3% were of Afrikaans origin.
More than half of the South African Australians arrived following the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994.[3] a behaviour stigmatised by white South Africans who remained in their homeland as "Packing for Perth". In 2007-08 4,000 South Africans permanently settled in Australia, a number that is slightly lower than previous years.[4]
Sydney has the largest number of South African born residents (28,425), followed by Perth (18,828), Melbourne (17,318) and Brisbane (12,821).
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