Indian South Africans
Proportion of Indian South Africans in each municipality according to the census | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,697,506 (2022 census) 2.74% of South Africa's population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| KwaZulu-Natal • Gauteng • Western Cape | |
| Languages | |
| South African English (home language)
Second languages Afrikaans • Isizulu • Tamil • Hindi • Urdu • Telugu • Bhojpuri (Naitali) • Awadhi • Gujarati • Kutchi • Bengali • Sindhi • Memoni • Konkani • Marathi • Malayalam • Kannada • Punjabi • Marwari • Odia • Other languages of the Indian subcontinent | |
| Religion | |
| Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, others | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indian diaspora in Southeast Africa, Indo-Mauritians, Indo-Fijians, Indo-Caribbean people, Indian Singaporeans, Malaysian Indians, Indian people, Indian diaspora, South Asian diaspora |
Indian South Africans are South Africans who descend from indentured labourers and free migrants who arrived from British India during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The majority live in and around the city of Durban, making it one of the largest ethnically Indian-populated cities outside of India.
As a consequence of the policies of apartheid, Indian (synonymous with Asian) is regarded as a race group in South Africa.