Geoffrey Cronjé
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]
Geoffrey Cronjé | |
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| Born | December 30, 1907 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Died | January 23, 1992 (aged 84) |
| Known for | Founder of Apartheid |
Cronjé believed since Afrikaners lived as a minority in South Africa, blacks and whites could not 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
- Louw, P. Eric (2004). The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–55. ISBN 0-275-98311-0.
- Coetzee, J M (15 June 1991). "The mind of apartheid: Geoffrey Cronjé (1907‐)". Social Dynamics. 17 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1080/02533959108458500.
- "HSRC". Hsrc.ac.za. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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