As of 2010, it had the world's ninth largest population of Baháʼís, with nearly 240,000 members. The Baháʼí community decided to limit membership in its national assembly to black adherents when a mixed-race assembly was prohibited under Apartheid. The Baháʼí Faith was introduced to South Africa in 1911. Jewish settlers only began to arrive in numbers from the 1820s. Islam was introduced by the Cape Malay slaves of the Dutch settlers, Hinduism was introduced by the indentured labourers imported from the Indian subcontinent, and Buddhism was introduced by both Indian and Chinese immigrants. After the British occupations of the Cape in 17, this Christian tradition prevailed.ĭuring the twentieth century the majority of people from European descent were Christian Protestants. This was reinforced by the arrival of the French Huguenots shortly thereafter. With the establishment of a trading post at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch in 1652, Christianity obtained a permanent foothold and gained converts among the indigenous population. The first symbols of Christianity in southern Africa were in the form of crosses planted along the coast by early Portuguese seafarers. A diverse variety of African Traditional Religions of the early Khoisan and later Bantu speakers were practiced in the region prior to contact with European seafarers and settlers.
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