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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Swazi of South Africa

The Swazi of South Africa, numbering approximately 1,495,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a South African Bantu ethnic group indigenous to Eswatini and South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga provinces They are an Indigenous people, with Swazi as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Bantu, Nguni people cluster of the Sub-Saharan African Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Swati is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Sub-Saharan African Peoples
Country: South Africa
People Cluster: Bantu, Nguni
Primary Language(s): Swati (ssw)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 1,495,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG015536
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Swati
Language Family: Atlantic-Congo

90%
%
Swati Speakers

Media Resources in Swati:

Films:
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Bible Resources in Swati:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Swazi are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Swazi:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Swazi of South Africa

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
read1 John 4:10

Pray for those without the hope of Christ to understand the depth of God's love and the sacrifice He made for them.

I saw in the night visions, and behold, with the clouds of heaven there came one like a son of man, and he came to the Ancient of Days and was presented before him. And to him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom one that shall not be destroyed.
readDaniel 7:13-14

Pray that the gospel will advance so that all peoples will come to know the Son of Man, who has been given dominion and glory and a kingdom, and that they will bow before Him and serve Him forever.

Praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to their number day by day those who were being saved.
readActs 2:47

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, God will use their faith and their church community as a testimony to the watching world and grow His Church.

The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
readJohn 1:9-10

Pray for those God might send to share the gospel here. Ask that they will grow closer to Jesus and be compelled to share His good news with people who don't know it.

Swazi Across Countries (ROP3 - 109648) reported in the following countries:

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5 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion ▼
SwaziPG015536SwaziSouth Africa1,495,000No Longer UnreachedSwatiProtestantism
SwaziPG047227SwaziUnited States550No Longer UnreachedSwatiProtestantism
SwaziPG015421SwaziMozambique73,500No Longer UnreachedSwatiEthnoreligion
SwaziPG015559SwaziEswatini1,010,000No Longer UnreachedSwatiEthnoreligion
SwaziPG015678SwaziZimbabwe83,000No Longer UnreachedSwatiEthnoreligion

To download a comprehensive people group list in spreadsheet form, visit our Research Data page.

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