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
Born(1907-12-30)December 30, 1907
Pretoria, South Africa
DiedJanuary 23, 1992(1992-01-23) (aged 84)
Known forFounder 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 un-Christian 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 (15 June 1991). "The mind of apartheid: Geoffrey Cronjé (1907-)". Social Dynamics. 17 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1080/02533959108458500.
  3. "HSRC". Hsrc.ac.za. Retrieved 15 February 2022.


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