South Africa

Listen to people from South Africa speak English in their native accent and, in some instances, Afrikaans or another native language in their local dialect. Please select a sample from the list below.

South Africa 1  female, Johannesburg
South Africa 2  male, Cape Town
South Africa 3  male, 18, 1982, Zulu, Pretoria
South Africa 4  male, 22, 1976, White (English South African), Germiston
South Africa 5  male, 18, 1981, Black, Johannesburg
South Africa 6  female, White, Vereeniging (near Johannesburg)
South Africa 7  female, 31, 1969, White, Cape Town
South Africa 8  female, 17, 1984, Zulu, Meadowlands
South Africa 9  female, 36, 1967, White, Cape and Natal provinces
South Africa 10  female, 20, 1985, Coloured/South African, Kuils River (Cape Town)
South Africa 11  female, 21, 1984, White, Pretoria
South Africa 12  female, 21, 1984, Black, Clanwilliam (Western Cape)
South Africa 13  female, 20, 1985, Black, Paarl (near Cape Town)
South Africa 14  male, 37, 1968, White, Pretoria
South Africa 15  (recategorized as Namibia 1)
South Africa 16  male, 20, 1985, White, Vrede
South Africa 17  female, 21, White, Nelspruit
South Africa 18  female, 20, 1985, Black, Paarl (near Cape Town)
South Africa 19  female, 20, 1985, White, Tzaneen
South Africa 20  female, 21, 1984, White (Afrikaans), Nigel
South Africa 21  female, 23, 1982, Malmesbury (near Cape Town)
South Africa 22  female, 19, 1986, Black, Vredendal
South Africa 23  male, 68, 1937, White, Bloemfontein and Johannesburg
South Africa 24  female, 72, 1933, Vredendal (Western Cape) and Gauteng
South Africa 25  male, 39, 1966, White/English, Johannesburg and Eastern Cape
South Africa 26  female, 38, 1967, White, Bloemfontein
South Africa 27  male, 24, 1981, White, Johannesburg
South Africa 28  male, 21, 1986, White, Witbank (and California, United States)
South Africa 29  female, 38, 1970, White, Durban
South Africa 30  female, 33, 1976, White, Pretoria and Alberton (Johannesburg)
South Africa 31  female, 62, 1951, Lithuanian/South African, Cape Town
South Africa 32  female, 45, 1972, White/South Africa, Johannesburg
South Africa 33  male, 80, 1937, White/South African, Cape Town & Pretoria (& Namibia)
South Africa 34  male, 51, 1966, Cape Coloured, Cape Town
South Africa 35  female, 73, 1944, (Cape) Malay, Cape Town
South Africa 36  female, 60, 1957, (Cape) Malay, Cape Town (Bo-Kaap)
South Africa 37  female, 61, 1955, (Cape) Malay, Cape Town (Wynberg)
South Africa 38  male, 68, 1949, (Cape) Malay, East London (Eastern Cape)
South Africa 39  male, 59, 1958, Cape Coloured (mixed), Cape Town (Grassy Park)
South Africa 40  female, 65, 1952, Indian, Brits (North West Province, or Western Transvaal)
South Africa 41  male, 70, 1947, White/South African/Lithuanian/Jewish, Bloemfontein
South Africa 42  female, 52, 1965, (Cape) Malay/Syrian/British, Cape Town (Wynberg)
South Africa 43  male, 36, 1980, Black (Tsonga), Mokopane (Limpopo Province)
South Africa 44  female, 37, 1980, (Cape) Malay, Cape Town (Grassy Park)
South Africa 45  male, 60, 1957, (Cape) Malay, Cape Town (Wynberg)
South Africa 46  female, 74, 1943, Black/Xhosa, Western Cape
South Africa 47  female, 63, 1954, (Cape) Malay, Ottery (Western Cape)
South Africa 48  female, 37, 1980, Coloured, Hout Bay (Western Cape)
South Africa 49  male, 81, 1936, White, Napier (Western Cape)
South Africa 50  female, 46, 1971, Coloured, Cape Town and the Transkei
South Africa 51  female, 40, 1977, Xhosa, Queenstown (Eastern Cape) and Cape Town
South Africa 52  female, 83, 1934, White, Worcester (Western Cape) and Pretoria
South Africa 53  male, 49, 1970, White with English and Scottish ancestry, Nigel

For more information on African languages, we suggest listening to the October 2020 edition of the In a Manner of Speaking podcast with Dr. Joyce Sukumane and IDEA Founder Paul Meier. And for more general information about South Africa, visit Wikipedia.