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C. Magbaily Fyle
SOUTH AFRICANS The South African people include 25 million "Blacks"
and 4.5 million "Whites." The Blacks are divided, for purposes of apartheid
legislation, into three official "race" groups: "Bantu" (African), 22 million;
"Coloured" (racially mixed), 2.5 million; and "Asian" (Indian), 750,000. The
Whites, among whom there is no official division, are two-thirds Afrikaansspeaking,
one-third English-speaking.
There are approximately 360,000 Muslims in South Africa. They are represented
in each of the official population groups, but principally in two of them,
Coloured and Asian. Within the predominantly Christian Coloured population
there is a Muslim subgroup of 182,000 people officially known as "Cape Malays."
About three-quarters of these Muslims live in the Cape Town area. Indian
Muslims, totalling 160,000, form the second major group. Most live in and
around Durban, but there is a significant number living in the Cape Town and
Johannesburg areas. In addition, there are nearly 13,000 African and just over
1,000 White Muslims.
Most South African Muslims are a highly urbanized group (more than 90
percent live in towns) with a history of close contact with Western life-styles.
While Muslims have always been discriminated against as non-white, they have
a privileged position relative to the majority of black Africans. Among Coloured
South Africans, Muslims constitute a social and economic elite.
Such advantage has in the past kept Muslims aloof from other non-white
groups, has reinforced their intermediary position and has given them a conservative
reputation. But the effect of apartheid legislation during the 1960s and
1970s has made Muslims more aware of their separation from Whites and of
what they have in common with each other. A growing number of Muslims,
especially among the better educated and the young, now call themselves Black
and strongly oppose ethnic labels like Cape Malay and Coloured as apartheid