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]

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.[3][4][5]

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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. ^ Bashford, Alison; Levine, Philippa (24 September 2010). The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 978-0-19-537314-1.
  4. ^ Marx, Christoph (11 November 2024). The Anxieties of White Supremacy: Hendrik Verwoerd and the Apartheid Mindset. African Sun Media. ISBN 978-1-998951-68-0.
  5. ^ Roos, Neil (28 June 2024). "Ordinary white South Africans and apartheid – bound to a racist system they helped prop up". The Conversation. Retrieved 25 November 2024.