South African Australians

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rdf:langString South African Australians (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Australiërs) are citizens or residents of Australia who are of South African descent. According to the 2016 Australian census, 162,450 Australian residents were born in South Africa, making up 0.7% of the country's population, while 118,960 residents claimed "South African" ancestry, and another 4,865 stated their ancestry as "Afrikaner". Most South African-born Australians are native English-speakers (118,147) while a large minority speak Afrikaans at home (38,415). Afrikaners are particularly concentrated in greater Perth. While just 0.2% of Australian residents in 2016 spoke Afrikaans at home, 0.6% of the residents of greater Perth (11,393) did. While 24% of South Africa-born Australians are Afrikaans speakers, census figures suggest that over one-third of South African Australians living in Western Australia are. Immigration from South Africa to Australia, particularly by professionals, accelerated in the 1990s. More than half of the South African Australians arrived following the election of Nelson Mandela in 1994. A behaviour stigmatised by white South Africans who remained in their homeland as "Packing for Perth" ("PFP") was also a humorous dig and reference to supporters of the Progressive Federal Party – a political party formed in 1977 that drew support mainly from liberal English-speaking white people. In 2007–2008, around 4,000 South Africans permanently settled in Australia, a slightly lower number than previous years.