Huguenots in South Africa
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Commemorating 300 years of Huguenot history in South Africa | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Western Cape · Gauteng · Free State · Limpopo | |
| Languages | |
| South African English · French · Afrikaans | |
| Religion | |
| Christianity (mainly Calvinism) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| French Canadians (Québécois), Afrikaners, Walloons, Cajuns, Caledonians, French, Louisiana Creoles, Pieds-Noirs, Romands |
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| French people |
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Many people of European heritage in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. Most of these originally settled in the Dutch Cape Colony, but were subsequently absorbed into the Afrikaner and Afrikaans-speaking population due to religious similarities with the Dutch colonists.