How many official languages are spoken in South Africa?

There are 11 official languages in South Africa.9 African,English and Afrikaans(Think of the accent of Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar in the Movie Invictus). However,English and Afrikaans are used as institutional languages. Thats is to say,for examples in Johannesburg in business scenarios,english is spoken from airports to restaurants to hotels,however there are some universities which are Afrikaans speaking and a province like the Free state is generally Afrikaans speaking.

Language in South Africa distinguishes around colour lines,with Black South Africans mostly speaking their maternal African language and English while White South Africans do the same if they still maintain their maternal languages(Hebrew,Italian,French etc),and in case not, speaking only English or only Afrikaans.

South Africa has eleven official languages. They are Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu. Less than one percent of South Africans speak any other language as their home language.1 Most South Africans can speak more than one language.

Prior to 1994, South Africa had only two official languages, namely English and Afrikaans.

Yep... like the comments below, we have eleven official languages.

It might get a bit confusing sometimes for people that are visiting from other countries. :).

Most of the languages are spoken throughout the country - however, different languages depend on the region - and a few are restricted to certain specific regions.

For instance, Xhosa, Afrikaans and English are the main languages spoken around the Eastern Cape, while Zulu and English are fairly dominant in Kwazulu-Natal.

And its true that most of us speak more than one language - you kind of have to...

....but the language of the original indigenous people, the Khoi and San are not one of those languages!

South Africa is a multilingual country and it has 11 official languages. These are: Afrikaans, English, IsiNdebele, IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, SiSwati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.