Wed May 22 00:37:41 SAST 2013

SA population 51.8m: Census

Oct 30, 2012 | Sapa | 85 comments

This is about seven million more people than were counted at the previous census, in 2001.

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Oct 30, 2012

Coldcurry

JZ knew way before the census results came out about the ratio of women to men hence the many wives
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Oct 30, 2012

MissBhakajuju

51.8 Million.... did they include foreigners ??

the number of Females & Males..... not too much margins, I see !!!


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Oct 30, 2012

asaowe

Woman has alwayz outnumber males
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Oct 30, 2012

MommaC

"...about 25.2 million are male, and 26.6 million are female"

First For Women because we don't drive like moegoes
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

"The population of neighbouring Western Cape has grown far more rapidly, from about four million in 1996, to 4.5 million in 2001, to 5.8 million in 2011."


"The Eastern Cape population appears not to have grown at the same rate as other regions over the past 15 years."


Its because people are moving from the ECape to the WCape. Moving from the poorest performing province to the best performing province.
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Oct 30, 2012

swona

25.2 million males, 5.2million are gay! so its 26.6mil against 20million!
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Oct 30, 2012

Mapholobakay1

To all the haters amaZulu are more than any group in Mzansi. Lelizwe elethu...pakishani izikhwama zenu nihambe.
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Oct 30, 2012

shakashaka

HIV is doing nothing to reduce these figures.
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Oct 30, 2012

DJ-Winner

Don't forget that nearly all Zim people have moved to SA. Nigerians also are here selling their drugs...
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Oct 30, 2012

Nongoloza24

swona
25.2 million males, 5.2million are gay! so its 26.6mil against 20million!
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hahahahahaha kikikikikikikiki.
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Oct 30, 2012

SWEETYK

Did they collect all questionnaires from different households?
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Oct 30, 2012

Mokwepa

"It also shows there are more women than men".
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this das not mean we must cheat....half of those woman are sick and quater gabathlape
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Oct 30, 2012

MissBhakajuju

@ Mokwepa

LOL... Kwepie waka. how are U luv ??


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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Dandan - Hehehe, your racism spread on thick today?
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Oct 30, 2012

SWEETYK

Mokwepa
"It also shows there are more women than men".
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this das not mean we must cheat....half of those woman are sick and quater gabathlape
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Kikikikikikiki tltltltlttlltltltltlltlltltltl I'm not on that list, I'm on other percentage tlltlltltllltltltlltl how is my baby Kwepie?
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Oct 30, 2012

guiliano

Out of that 51.8m 20mil are foreigners.
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Oct 30, 2012

asaowe

There is a relatively high percentage of persons aged 20 years and older with no schooling in Limpopo (17.3 percent), followed by Mpumalanga (14 percent)"
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Oct 30, 2012

SOLUTIONS

The population of neighbouring Western Cape has grown far more rapidly, from about four million in 1996, to 4.5 million in 2001, to 5.8 million in 2011.
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Amazing how many educational refugees and people looking for employment are heading for the best run city in Africa. looks like proof is in the pudding.
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Oct 30, 2012

Lungu

Sowetan are this the only provinces in this country or they did not count ppl in Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Free state? Stop wasting other ppl's time wanting to count them but when they need to know their results are not provided s*i*s.
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Oct 30, 2012

MissBhakajuju

@ Mapholobakay1

your comment proves that a Gr.1 Dropp-out behind the Computer is still a Gr.1 D.O..... Did U know that, KZN consists of Indians, Whites & other Black Tribes too ?? No wonder other nations are loughing @ us, umntu avule umlomo, just for ukuthetha u thuvi bodwa !!!!




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Oct 30, 2012

Bumboklaat

spewing bile and more bile!
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Oct 30, 2012

Chichi7

people have been really busy...
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Oct 30, 2012

Printa

SouthAfrican 25 Mil, Zimbabeans 20 mil, other foreigners 6 mil.

Wow!
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Oct 30, 2012

Missjoy

This includes a lot number of foreiners and bayazala labobantu!
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Oct 30, 2012

paracute

Law enforcement needed
birth control policies be implemented at least 3 kids per married couple
Depo and triphasills to be regularly taken
condoms be used
legal C-TOP to be encouraged
termination of child support grants
deportation of illegal immigrants
womb removals of psychies

from 44Million to 51 it's too much no wonder we having high rate of poverty

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Oct 30, 2012

Serobapipi-

I was not counted
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Oct 30, 2012

19Doubleiets

So does that mean the rate of natality is more or the rate of mortality is less... I wonder...?
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Oct 30, 2012

Leocardo

Since I was not counted I guess its 50.800001 mil people in SA.....?
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Oct 30, 2012

dmstephen

ra nyoba maan
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Oct 30, 2012

lenyora13

I wonder if the census was done ko Hillbrow or Nigeria and if they found any South Africans
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Oct 30, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

Yah Aids killed a lot of people maan, Thanks to the late Manto and her beatroot treatment!!!
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Oct 30, 2012

thenubianqueen

and i bet that from the count, about 10million are Foreigners
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Oct 30, 2012

Seja-Bana

Serobapipi-
I was not counted
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u were not counted because be o a ilo roba P!pi. next time be here and give it a break you will be counted.
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Oct 30, 2012

SNACKS

"It also shows there are more women than men"
and all of this women want to get married, how are we going to do this? share

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Oct 30, 2012

9janavy

Funny how pathetic many of you sound.90% of the people in the United states are foreigners but you don't see them whining like South Africans.So you have a lot of foreigners ,big deal.You guys make me sick the way you discriminate against your fellow Africans.In my life i have never witnessed such a display of self hate and low intelligence.You keep forgetting that this a public medium accessible to millions of people all over the world and your constant xenophobic utterances will only alienate your nation from the rest of Africa.

No condition is permanent,tomorrow it could be you saffers migrating to other African countries looking for a better future.Don't be shocked when your hosts treat you you badly because your currently hateful behavior towards them is being etched in their memories.In case you have not noticed ,your precious South Africa is not what it used to be.Thanks to your ill informed decision to elect a corrupt ,reckless, always dancing and fornicating leader your country is loosing FDI faster than the speed of light.At this rate Zimbabwe will look like a five star Hotel when compared to SA in 10 years time.At least Zimbabwe had and still has the brains to weather the storm ,that much i can not say for SA.Do on to others what you want done on to you.
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Oct 30, 2012

Dr.Breeze

Well my question is this...

There is an excess of more than 1.5Mil women than men and a percentage of those who were counted by men are gays and this percentage is more than that of those women who are lesies, meaning that a good number of women out ther are in desperate need for some action and you get these ladies that say they dont want to share. It is a christian thing to do (shearing that is) giving your neighbour a hand in times off need so people lets rock and roll and to all the wives out there please understand that this is done to help the sisters out there
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Oct 30, 2012

DJ-Winner

Leocardo
Since I was not counted I guess its 50.800001 mil people in SA.....?
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Make it 50.800002. Those people also refused to count me because I did not want to bribe them to do so...
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DJ-Winner

Dr.Breeze
Well my question is this...

There is an excess of more than 1.5Mil women than men and a percentage of those who were counted by men are gays and this percentage is more than that of those women who are lesies, meaning that a good number of women out ther are in desperate need for some action and you get these ladies that say they dont want to share. It is a christian thing to do (shearing that is) giving your neighbour a hand in times off need so people lets rock and roll and to all the wives out there please understand that this is done to help the sisters out there
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Well, some of those women are old, ugly and fat....
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Oct 30, 2012

Sophisticated_Ignorance

Mapholobakay1
To all the haters amaZulu are more than any group in Mzansi. Lelizwe elethu...pakishani izikhwama zenu nihambe.
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What more can I say about this tribe - per this representative? Mapholoba has confirmed some suspicions of ignorance...
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Oct 30, 2012

Dr.Breeze

@9jan

90% of people in the states are foregniers....fair enough are those people there legally or not and what percentage of them is there ilegally. Majority of the people that are there (which are the foreigners that you are referring to) got there because they were born there during the time of slavery hence you find latin american, african americans and such. Do you know of a nigerian south african, zambian south african....? there answer is NO and if yuo look at the majority of foreigners that are in the US they are there because of work and the do their bit to the upliftment of the country.

Now go to Hillbrow, Yoville Turfontein, Deepsloot just to name a few and tell me how many of those foreigners that are there are here legally and how many of them actual earn an honest living.



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Oct 30, 2012

Dr.Breeze

@ Dj

ugly, old and fat women also need D!ck boss mbobo ke mbobo.,,LOL
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Oct 30, 2012

-Cl!ck-

26.6 million females in the country.. 1 is more than enough for me thanks!!

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Oct 30, 2012

Sophisticated_Ignorance

Truth be told though, there's a lot of complacency amongst South africans born here. A lot of us act like all the country's problems are the result of "foreigners" etc. We are the bulk of the problem and when we cant face our mistakes we blame foreigners. Education, technology and global travel have opened my eyes and mind about how SAfricans are letting their own country go to the dogs.. Your ignorant a$$ needs to shape up or face a very bleak future. The world, yes including South Africa, is one global entity where your wits are pitted against each other and the law of natural selection will eliminate non-entities.

The Xenophobe in you is result of a primitive system you inherited which to a great degree education and technology is trying to resolve. The constant rants about foreigners depleting the country of resources and growing the drug trade is minimal when you look at the bigger picture which is the current plight of our mineral resources, skilled labourers and professionals that are leaving the country.


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Oct 30, 2012

madimetsha

hayi ke, we are many, .................but are thye sure Nigerians and Zimababweans were not counted, remember at some stage it was estimated 1000 zimbabweaans cross the border each day into SA illegaly, that is a whopping 3.5 milluiion people.then include Nigerians, Ghanians, Mocambique etc.....if I may ask, why is the department of Home Affairs not providing this stats? surely 99.99% of people born are registered, and same with people dying.......
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Oct 30, 2012

9janavy

@Dr.Breeze

....And that justifies the collective h@te which is being displayed here??? So if foreigners are living in Hillbrow, Yeoville ,Turfontein, Deepsloot and some of them do crime ,that gives South Africans the license to discriminate against foreigners living in their country?? Do you know how many South Africans where arrested for r@pe in England between 2011 and 2012??? Do you see the Br1ts discriminating against foreigners??
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Oct 30, 2012

SWEETYK

DJ-Winner
Leocardo
Since I was not counted I guess its 50.800001 mil people in SA.....?
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Make it 50.800002. Those people also refused to count me because I did not want to bribe them to do so...
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Kikikikikikiki tltltltltltltlltltltltlltlt ooooohhhh my Dj, bribe to be counted tltltltltllttltllttlltl who was trying to bribe you Padi or who? lol
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Oct 30, 2012

MommaC

LOL
for a bunch of people who are on their computers every day, some sure have a lot of difficulty accessing Stats SA.

statssa.gov.za/Publications/P03014/P030142011.pdf
Table 3.3
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Oct 30, 2012

MommaC

Oh, and stop saying that the Western Cape is so good. Only 303 thousand went there whilst over a million buggers invaded Gauteng
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Oct 30, 2012

Lepile

we hav to thank our sensetive and bright zuma for not mentioning that Bepedi, Bavhenda , zulu etc ar the real south africans. i nearly heard him say next a small civil war. thanx zulu boy.
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Oct 30, 2012

Lepile

help me out with math: 26.6mil women - 25.2mil man=1.4mil women.
thefore we have 1.4mil women lonley out there. please dont rape try 1.4milwomen
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Oct 30, 2012

THEmadame2B-BBEE

yeah sure about 1.4mil of them ladies are in prison for killing their spouses, hence Mulalo Sivhidzho
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

SINUD
I TOLD U SADF OLDIE come DA cadre. Under Tony Leon u were a racist party then decided to loosen up abit. Thats whites for u.

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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Mapholobakay1
Ha ha take it easy wth that TRIBALIST JZ crap!!!!!

Officially there are about 10,3 million Zulus followed by about 9 million Xhosas note Xhosas live all over SA unlike Zulus who live in KZN, MP,Gauteng.

Example I know of alot of Xhosas of North West, Nothern Cape who dont speak Xhosa but Tswana but theyr Xhosas. LUNGILE RADU (Sbu Rythm City speaks Zulu hes not Zulu bt Xhosa), Zenzo Ngqobe (Rythm City speaks Setswana hes a Motswana).

SO BE CAREFUL MY FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO LANGAUGES.
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Nqumla

Mapholobakay1
Ha ha take it easy wth that TRIBALIST JZ crap!!!!!

Officially there are about 10,3 million Zulus followed by about 9 million Xhosas note Xhosas live all over SA unlike Zulus who live in KZN, MP,Gauteng.

Example I know of alot of Xhosas of North West, Nothern Cape who dont speak Xhosa but Tswana but theyr Xhosas. LUNGILE RADU (Sbu Rythm City speaks Zulu hes not Zulu bt Xhosa), Zenzo Ngqobe (Rythm City speaks Setswana hes a Motswana).

SO BE CAREFUL MY FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO LANGUAGES.
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Nqumla

Mapholobakay1
Most Tswanas, Vendas, Pedis etc..born in Gauteng speak Zulu and theyr not Zulus. Same can be said about people of colour and Xhosas in the Northern and Western Cape. tswanas and Xhosas of Kimberly speak Afrikaans as a 1st language theyr not JAN VAN REEBIECKS.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - "Under Tony Leon u were a racist party"


Under Jacob Zuma u are in a rapist party.
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Sinud PROPAGANDA RABBIH
I knw ur desparate to see AZANIA being controlled from JERUSALEM. Dream on OLDIE.
Stats show people are moving to Gauteng than WC.
Migration
Almost half the people living in Gauteng were not born in that province, according to Census 2011.

The document, a snapshot of the situation in South Africa at midnight on October 9 last year, finds people tend to move into Gauteng from other provinces, or from outside the country.
“Only 56 percent of people counted in Gauteng during Census 2011 were born there, compared to 94 percent of people in the Eastern Cape.”
The population of Gauteng at the time of the census was just over 5.8 million people.
The percentage of the provincial population born outside of South Africa is also highest in Gauteng, at 9.5 percent. The next closest is the Western Cape, at 4.7 percent.
Of the total number of people counted across the country — close to 51.8 million — about 2.3 million (4.4 percent) declared they were born outside South Africa.
“The white population group had the highest percentage (8.5 percent) of people who were not born in South Africa.”
Second were Indians or Asians (at 7.3 percent), and then black people (3.9 percent).
According to Statistics SA officials attending the release of the census in Cape Town, the latest census had an estimated 14.3 percent undercount, down from the 17 percent undercount in the previous (2001) count.
A system of estimation was used to arrive at a “true population” figure for the country.
Undercounts of less than 10 percent are considered to be a good indicator of an accurate census.
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Sinud PROPAGANDA RABBIH
SADF soldier turn DA cadre I missed the stories about how SADF soldiers killed in and outside SA.
Tell us more.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Tell us about MK veterans who raped little girls for entertainment.
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Sinud
yes RABBIH these stats are good for us. Cant wait for 2014. Ha ha we can borrow u a few votes and still WIN TWO THIRDS MAJORITY.

JZ FOR SECOND TERM!!!!Ohh wait until Zille goes to the GRAVE.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Are you still copying and pasting everything? Next time you do, check the formatting.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - ANC will never again get a 2/3 majority. Last time the ANC had 2/3's majority was during Mbeki's term.
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Sinud

Bro Im young black and still doesnt have kids yet but. Jeeez am sure Im gonna have more 20 kids as Im not a white male. Ha ha WHITE MALES suffer from LACK OF LIBIDO. Most are so stressed about RACIAL crap they take this to the BEDROOM. Example ET, did he have kids????
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Tell us about the R8 billion we spent and how they are all currently inoperational. Tell us how the one incompetent technician blew every single electronic system in the sub with his wiring 'techniques'. Tell us how an SANDF dude crashed the last operational submarine on the sandbed :P
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Oct 30, 2012

mzobhozo

Gauteng male more than female which means man are sharing woman now not woman sharing man i think i must rellocate to western cape
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!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - "Bro Im young black and still doesnt have kids yet"

Yeah I know, thats why I keep telling you to go play outside while the adults talk.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Yeah, you are going to have 20 kids, and all of them will be living on government grants.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Meanwhile, my 2 children will earn 6x more than your kids :P
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

Last time we checked on the TNS surveys done by the WHITE MEDIA when COPE was formed the ANC was projected to get 53% they got 65%. Again this was at the time people were ANGRY wth Mbekis sacking.

Ha ha pls smell the coffeee OLDIE no one wants OLD "EUROPEANS ONLY"/white cotrolled SA.
Like ET ur day dreaming of the old days. Well that has to do wth AGE. Zille thinks shes getting younger?????
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Nqumla

!#Sinudeity#!
Haha me kids????No ways bro Im BLACK AND YOUNG, am informed wont be BRAINWASHED by the likes of u. Who wonder around the SOWETAN trying to BRAINWASH black people since u grew up in an era where whites viewed our people otheryz.

Middle finger OLDIE!!!!!!!
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - There is a big difference between when Mbeki was kicked out, and Zuma crowned, and now bafaantjie.

I mean, inbetween then and now, the DA took 30 wards from the ANC. Townships are now majority DA voters...
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

!#Sinudeity#!
Ha ha u fought for the APARTHEID era regime and have SADF stories that ur proud of. While on the other hand ur DA cadre trying to be liberal.



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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - You mean my white-muti and white-brainwashing mindpowers are not working on you?! Nooooooo.... :P


Middle finger nkwenkwe :P
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Of course, I was a famous general in Angola, fighting for the SADF. Hope your brothers werent in Angola, because I probably f***ed them up.
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

!#Sinudeity#!
Ha ha pls tell me those people have GARANTEED u they will vote DA. Most are paid by the DA and making a living. Wear DA shirt, run around as they pay u to do so. Then VOTE ANC!!!!CASE CLOSED!!!!!

LINDIWE MAZIBUKO IS CASHING NOW AND HAS SAID IT OPENLY THAT SHE VOTED ANC IN 1999. Am sure once the DA racist head shows she gonna bounce. Ha ha R1,2 million per annum times 5 then am sure she will ahev reason to leave the DA.
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!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Hehe, the 30 wards taken from the ANC paints another picture boytjie.
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - Anyways, dont you have gym or something to get to? Lots of dudes missing your presence :P
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Oct 30, 2012

Nqumla

!#Sinudeity#!
Not to forget aunty Patricia De Lille (PAC inside). Take ur enemies closer, for now shes lika SPONGE.

Ha ha later shes gonna SAY IT ALL. DAs SECRETS!!!!!!!!The ANGLO-SAXON and JEW males said this and that!!!!!

Ha ha I know her!!!!!!!
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Oct 30, 2012

!#Sinudeity#!

Nqumla - The people who voted, in 30 wards, decided that they will rather vote for the DA, than the ANC. Plenty of them townships...
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Oct 30, 2012

Polygyny101

Polygyny will solve this issue of more women than men. Many men are also in prison making the ratio even bigger.
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Oct 30, 2012

Lord-Have-Mercy

Google the word "MK NAOMI" a project dedicated to depopularise us africans but its failing
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Oct 30, 2012

Lord-Have-Mercy

"People are still having sex"
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Oct 30, 2012

knobkirrie

Western Cape Population has grow because of Sinudeity's arse
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Oct 31, 2012

Tango

Nqumla
Mapholobakay1
Ha ha take it easy wth that TRIBALIST JZ crap!!!!!

Officially there are about 10,3 million Zulus followed by about 9 million Xhosas note Xhosas live all over SA unlike Zulus who live in KZN, MP,Gauteng.

Example I know of alot of Xhosas of North West, Nothern Cape who dont speak Xhosa but Tswana but theyr Xhosas. LUNGILE RADU (Sbu Rythm City speaks Zulu hes not Zulu bt Xhosa), Zenzo Ngqobe (Rythm City speaks Setswana hes a Motswana).

SO BE CAREFUL MY FRIEND WHEN IT COMES TO LANGUAGES
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1.SA unlike Zulus who live in KZN, MP,Gauteng..............You forgot to included FS as the is also a huge % of Zulus in the province.
2.Xhosaz are 3.5 million less than Zulus in these country and thats too much
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Oct 31, 2012

5SKIPAS

Sophisticated_Ignorance
Mapholobakay1
To all the haters amaZulu are more than any group in Mzansi. Lelizwe elethu...pakishani izikhwama zenu nihambe.
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What more can I say about this tribe - per this representative? Mapholoba has confirmed some suspicions of ignorance...
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Statistics shows that birth rate from "Unemployed, poor & uneducated family households" is 60% more as compared to that of "both Educated, employed and affording family households", hence the large quantity of Zulu tribe as Mapholoba proclaims. So let him enjoy many wives and lot of useless bunch of uneducated kids
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