Geoffrey Cronjé Explained

Geoffrey Cronjé
Birth Date:	1907 12, mf=yes
Birth Place:	Pretoria, South Africa
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 where blacks and whites were strictly segregated.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. Book: Louw, P. Eric . The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of Apartheid . Greenwood Publishing Group . 2004 . 27–55 . 0-275-98311-0.
2. The mind of apartheid: Geoffrey Cronjé (1907-). J M. Coetzee. June 15, 1991. Social Dynamics. 17. 1. 1–35. 10.1080/02533959108458500. free.
3. Book: Bashford . Alison . The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics . Levine . Philippa . 2010-09-24 . Oxford University Press, USA . 978-0-19-537314-1 . en.
4. Book: Marx, Christoph . The Anxieties of White Supremacy: Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset . 2024-11-11 . African Sun Media . 978-1-998951-68-0 . en.
5. Web site: Ordinary white South Africans and apartheid – bound to a racist system they helped prop up. Neil. Roos. 28 June 2024. The Conversation. 25 November 2024.