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Geoffrey Cronjé

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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 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

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  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.[permanent dead link]