Yes there are many Portuguese whites in South Africa but I have never met any of them.
Most Afrikaners/Boers have Dutch and French ancestry, German occurs as well, but the Dutch (colonial) culture is dominant.
Many South Africans are also British and they have mixed a lot with the Afrikaners over time, so have the Portuguese probably!
The entirely British people tend to live in the cosmopolitan urban areas like Cape Town and Durban.
(Afrikaners are the catch-all term for the non-English, mostly Dutch/French whites;
Boers are the Afrikaner farmers and peasants who settled the interior and later fought the British;
Cape Dutch or Cape Afrikaners are the ones who lived on the coast and cooperated with the British,
but this group sympathised with the Boers, developed a lot of the Afrikaner nationalism that led to independent South Africa)
So white South Africans are an ethnic mix, like Americans.
Some are more culturally Dutch/Afrikaner/Boer (especially in rural areas),
some are more cosmopolitan or culturally British (especially in urban areas),
and there are many possible ethnicities.
Everyone speaks English,
many whites and many blacks do not speak Afrikaans,
but many rural whites and Coloureds speak Afrikaans as their first language.
Everyone can get along in English though.
My stepbrother's family was the more cosmopolitan Anglophile type (despite being Swedish),
and we were absorbed into that milieu, and we mostly forgot our likely Afrikaner/Boer roots.
We have never encountered any Spanish either, there may be some,
whites in South Africa are very mixed, white immigration was encouraged,
so you will find many nationalities that immigrated pre-1994. Surprisingly many Eastern Europeans, refugees from communism.
But whites have been mostly leaving since then, with no notable white immigration.
I have heard of white South Africans moving to Brazil, Argentina and Spain more than the reverse!
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