To start off with, here are a summary and an introduction and personal perspective on the topic of Germans in South Africa.

The Germans in South Africa can be divided into the following groups:

• Early immigrants in the Cape Province
• The Natal Germans
• The Kaffraria Germans
• The Philipi Germans
• Immigrants of the 19th Century
• Individual Immigrants
• German residents in Cape Town, 1886
• Germans at the Cape (in German) and in Stellenbosch (in Afrikaans)