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etirement age than working citizens, 18.4% of the community are of
retirement age whilst 58.4% are of working age.
Chart 4 Languages: Male and Female
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Females
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English Afrikaans Xhosa Other
African
Other
The above chart identifies a marginally larger (3.5%) English speaking
population of 49.7% to a 46.2% population of Afrikaans speaking citizens.
This is an interesting fact as many of the churches within the town boundaries
of Somerset West are Afrikaans speaking denominations. This may indicate
that fewer English speaking citizens attend church or that English speaking
churches are fewer but larger in size.
From the above charts and statistical information it can be concluded that
the average citizen of Somerset West in 2001 was an English-speaking white
female between the ages of 35 and 54.
2.1.3. Churches in Somerset West
There are approximately 20 Protestant churches within the town
boundaries of Somerset West, excluding the Catholic Church, one Kingdom
Hall and two Seventh Day Adventist Churches. Due to the limited number of
churches within the area, requirements concerning congregational size were
not limited. However, this study does delimit itself to wives of full-time senior
pastors, a total of ten participants. Due to the limited availability of pastors’
wives and the importance of qualitative research parameters, a small number
of wives were treated intimately, as case studies.
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