White South African is a term which refers to people from
South Africa who are of
European descent and who do not regard themselves, or are not regarded as, being part of another
racial group (for example, as
Coloured). In
linguistic, cultural and historical terms, they are generally divided into the
Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the
Dutch East India Company's original settlers, known as
Afrikaners, and the
Anglophone descendants of predominantly
British colonists. South Africa's white population is divided into 61
frikaans speakers, 36 nglish speakers, and 3% who speak another language, such as
Portuguese. White South Africans are by far the largest
European-descended population group in Africa.