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Geoffrey Cronjé
Born(1907-12-30)December 30, 1907
Pretoria, South Africa
DiedJanuary 23, 1992(1992-01-23) (aged 84)
Known forFounder of Apartheid

Geoffrey Cronjé (30 December, 1907 – 23 January, 1992)) was a South African professor of sociology at the University of Pretoria and one of the founders of the apartheid system in South Africa.[1] [2][3]

Cronjé believed since Afrikaaners lived as a minority in South Africa, blacks and whites couldn't peacefully co exist, he considered this to be unjust and unChristian and proposed an ideology called Apartheid where blacks and whites were strictly segregated.


References

  1. ^ Louw, P. Eric (2004). The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–55. ISBN 0-275-98311-0.
  2. ^ Coetzee, J M (June 15, 1991). "The mind of apartheid: Geoffrey Cronjé (1907‐)". Social Dynamics. 17 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1080/02533959108458500.
  3. ^ http://www.hsrc.ac.za/en/review/hsrc-review-sept-2019/lessons-and-legacies