I don't know why, but every South African I've seen on tv has the really cool British accent.
2006-07-31 05:55:09 · 16 answers · asked by patriot303 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Great Britain colonized South Africa hundreds of years ago and pushed their lifestyle and way of speaking onto the South Africans. Today, most South africans are white with a british accent.
2006-07-31 05:58:47 · answer #1 · answered by absenceofear74 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're all deaf - a South African (esp. Boer) accent is NOTHING like a British accent.
I was born & raised in a little village in England & came to the USA at age 30yo. Now, 13 years later, I do have the common problem sometimes being unable to tell the difference between some Australin & British accents. But South African accents are TOTALLY different.
P.S. There isn't 1 British accent really - there are hundreds.
2006-07-31 13:01:20 · answer #2 · answered by dryheatdave 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South Africans have an accent all of their own, I am from the dead centre of England and I have never heard a British person with the same accent as a South African (its a shame really I think the accent is great!)
2006-07-31 13:00:38 · answer #3 · answered by clairehair21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don`t have British accent...well the one i know doesn`t lol...im British and i work with a South African who has lived in Britian for over 10 years and he still has a South African Accent.
2006-07-31 13:00:42 · answer #4 · answered by phil4you5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South Africans don't have a British accent! It's totally different!!
2006-07-31 12:59:47 · answer #5 · answered by onlyhuman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They DON'T!!
I'm English, and I used to work with a woman from South Africa - a white woman I might add - and her accent was TOTALLY different from any British accent!! I've heard them loads of times on TV too, so I know it wasn't just HER!
The only South African with a British accent will the one who hasn't been in South Africa long, and who spent most of their life in Britain!!
2006-07-31 20:54:41 · answer #6 · answered by _ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
South Africa like many parts of the world once belonged to the British Empire thus the accent.
2006-07-31 12:59:14 · answer #7 · answered by Artemis61779 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
South Africa was part of the British Empire
2006-07-31 12:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by miksterkhan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Weren't colonies of England in South Africa? So, when they learned english it would have been from them. My question, why does Madonna have a british accent?
2006-07-31 12:59:48 · answer #9 · answered by Traci W 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they were colonized by the British stay forever and they have white people there thinking they are African.
2006-07-31 14:06:29 · answer #10 · answered by coolhandjoe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋