Chinese South Africans are overseas Chinese who reside in South Africa—both those whose ancestors came to South Africa in the early 20th century, until Chinese immigration was banned under the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1904, Taiwanese industrialists who arrived in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, and post-apartheid immigrants (predominantly from mainland China) to South Africa, who now outnumber locally-born Chinese South Africans.