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Cronjé
[krawn-yey]
noun
Piet Arnoldus 1835?–1911, Boer general.
Cronje
/ 'krɒnjə /
noun
Hansie , full name Wessel Johannes Cronje (1969–2002); South African cricketer. He captained South Africa (1994–2000); banned for life from cricket for match-fixing in 2001
Example Sentences
Inside a wood-panelled annex of an Edwardian building in Cape Town the stricken figure of Hansie Cronje lay crumpled on the floor.
Cronje's story, re-examined in Sport's Strangest Crimes on BBC Sounds, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Wessel Johannes 'Hansie' Cronje was born into a sporting, and deeply Christian, family in Bloemfontein.
Cronje was educated at the prestigious Grey College where he was head boy, captained the school in both rugby and cricket, and was earmarked for great things.
Ex-South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald, a childhood friend of Cronje who attended the Technical High School in the same city, said that even as a teenager the young Hansie was a "a deep thinker" who had "leadership qualities all over him".
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