Dr Willem Adriaan Cruywagen (1921 – 10 July 2013) was a moderate South African politician during apartheid,[1] and an academic and author.
Cruywagen moved to the town of Germiston in the mid-1940s, where he taught history, geography, and music before becoming involved in politics.
[2] In 1986, international pressure on apartheid had mounted so much that the American film company Columbia Pictures threatened to boycott South Africa's Ster Kinekor theatre chain if they did not end segregation of their cinemas in 1987.
Officially, the cinema was reserved for whites only; however, blacks were allowed entry through a back entrance and to view from a special gallery.
[5] In the late 1980s, Cruywagen described the transformation of African councils from advisory bodies in the 1970s into local authorities in the 1980s as the "most important constitutional event in the history of this country", and recommended that black and white people jointly govern the Transvaal province.