Geoffrey Cronjé
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Geoffrey Cronjé | |
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| Born | 30 December 1907 Pretoria, South Africa |
| Died | 23 January 1992 (aged 84) |
| Known for | Founder 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]
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. Under apartheid, people of different races were strictly segregated.[3][4][5]
