South Africans in the Netherlands

Most South Africans in the Netherlands are Afrikaners, a population group descended from Dutch (and to a lesser extent German and French) colonists who settled in the Cape Colony from 1652 onwards. There is also a smaller minority of Coloured South-Africans in the Netherlands, a multi-racial people group descending from various groups (Europeans, Africans and Asians) and other white South Africans of non-Afrikaner descent (British, Portuguese etc).

Afrikaners and Coloured South-Africans mainly speak Afrikaans, a daughter language and variant of Dutch from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with loanwords from English, Malay, German, and to a lesser extent also Khoi, San and also from some Bantu languages.

While 21,878 South Africans were still living in the Netherlands on January 1, 2018, this number had increased to 30,902 in October 2021. This made South Africans one of the fastest growing population groups in the Netherlands during this period, the number have since doubled further into more than 40,000 as of 2023.^[3]

• Bernard Loots – Cricketer
• Ferdi and Rob Bolland – Music producer duo
• Clayton Floyd
• Colin Ackermann
• Dik Abed
• Eric Szwarczynski
• Marieke Ehlers – Politician
• Marlene Dumas – Painter
• Philippe Boissevain
• Sean Bergin – Musician
• Sybrand Engelbrecht
• Stephan Myburgh
• Tania Leon – Women's rights and anti-Apartheid activist
• Vincent Brümmer – Theologian
• Wesley Barresi

• Netherlands–South Africa relations
• South African diaspora
• Immigration to the Netherlands