Cronjé

[krawn-yey]

noun

1. Piet Arnoldus 1835?–1911, Boer general.

Cronje

/ 'krɒnjə /

noun

1. 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.

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Cronje's story, re-examined in Sport's Strangest Crimes on BBC Sounds, is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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Wessel Johannes 'Hansie' Cronje was born into a sporting, and deeply Christian, family in Bloemfontein.

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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.

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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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