Translation Services Pretoria

Translation services for the City of Tshwane usually involve 11 language documents for government departments and ad hoc projects for foreign embassies.

Translation services in Pretoria 2022

With over 10 years’ technical translation experience our company have developed a team of highly qualified and experienced translators for all the official languages of South Africa. We work with government, local and international organisations with a reputation for delivering quality work, on time. For our contact details and more information on our working process, visit our home page.

The most requested languages for Pretoria are Sepedi, Afrikaans and Setswana. Government departments and embassies will frequently request media releases and high level communications in all the official languages.

Translation Services Pretoria

Tshwane/Pretoria's languages

English is spoken as a first language by a sixth of the people living in Pretoria. The three most spoken languages are Northern Sotho / Sepedi 19%, Afrikaans 18% and Setswana 15%. Other languages of note are Xitsonga and isiZulu at 8% respectively. IsiNdebele and Sesotho speakers also account for 5% each. In 2011, the national census estimated the city's urban population at just under 3 million people.

Expand the reach of your final English documents to reach the city's population.

# Language Percent Population Pretoria
1
  Sepedi 19.4% 562,600
2 Afrikaans 18.4% 533,600
3  Setswana 14.7% 426 300
4  English 8.4% 243 600
Data Statistics South Africa: City of Tshwane

By translating your materials into Sepedi, Afrikaans and Setswana you will be reaching more than six times more people in Tshwane their first language.

Reach a national audience

By translating to Sepedi you reach South Africa's fifth most spoken language at 9% of the population, or about five and a half million home language South Africans (2011).

By translating to Afrikaans you reach South Africa's third most spoken language at 14% of the national population or about seven million home language South Africans (2011).

By translating to Setswana you reach South Africa's sixth most spoken language at 8% of the national population or about four million home language South Africans (2011).

# Language Percent Population South Africa
1 Afrikaans 13.7% 6 855 082
2  English 9.8% 4 892 623
3
  Sepedi 9.3% 4 618 576
4  Setswana 8.2% 4 067 248
Data Statistics South Africa: Census in brief (2011) PDF

English speakers account for only 9.8% of the South African population. When translating into Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Afrikaans, and Setswana you will be reaching an additional 31% of people in their home language. This is approximately three times more South Africans countrywide.

City of Tshwane in context

Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa and the City of Tshwane, the fifth largest municipality with a population of 2.9 million. This makes it one of the most important cities in South Africa, itself the 25th most populous country in the world. South Africa is a partner in the influential BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) alliance and the major political, economic and developmental force on the African continent. Despite being only the fourth largest city in South Africa, much of the country’s educational, scientific and diplomatic infrastructure resides in Pretoria, lending the city an outsize influence both domestically and in regional and international affairs.

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