Jock Isacowitz
 Jock Isacowitz | |
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| Rayuwa | |
| Haihuwa | 7 ga Faburairu, 1915 |
| Mutuwa | 30 ga Janairu, 1962 |
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| Sana'a |
soja, ɗan siyasa da anti-apartheid activist (en)  |
Joseph "Jock" Louis Isacowitz (7 Fabrairu 1915 – 18 Yuni 1974) ɗan siyasa ne na Jam'iyyar Liberal ta Afirka ta Kudu, mai fafutukar yaƙi da nuna wariyar launin fata kuma wanda ya kafa ƙungiyar Springbok Legion.[1][2]
Rayuwar farko
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]An haifi Isacowitz a Benoni a lardin Transvaal a cikin shekarar 1915 ga iyayenta Yahudawa ne, Sarah Leah Bear da Isra'ila Isacowitz. [3] Mahaifinsa, Isra'ila ya mutu yana da shekaru 34-35 a 1921 lokacin da Jock yana da shekaru shida.[3] Ya halarci makarantar sakandare ta Benoni sannan daga baya Jami'ar Witwatersrand, inda ya kammala karatunsa da digiri na biyu na Pharmacy (Hons). Shi ɗan asalin Yahudawan Lithuania ne. [1]
A jami'a ya yi abokantaka da ɗaliban Yahudawa Rusty Bernstein da Kurt Jonas. Yunas ya rinjaye shi, wanda ya gabatar da shi ga Marxism.[4][5][6] A wani lokaci ya kasance memba na Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Afirka ta Kudu kuma an gano shi a matsayin wanda bai yarda da Allah ba.[5] Ya yi murabus daga jam’iyyar a watan Fabrairun 1946, ya rubuta cewa halinta na kama-karya “ya ɓata mini rai.[2]
Ya yi yakin duniya na biyu tare da sojojin Afirka ta Kudu a Gabashi da Arewacin Afirka, inda ya kasance sajan-manjo kuma ya sami rauni a wani mataki.[1] Ta'addancin Holocaust ya kai ga kin amincewa da sahyoniyanci ya kuma shiga kungiyar Sahayoniya ta gurguzu.[1] Ya shiga Majalisar Wakilan Yahudawa ta Afirka ta Kudu, yana aiki a matsayin wakili a kan zartarwa na ƙasa kuma ya tafi manufa don ziyartar waɗanda suka tsira daga Holocaust a sansanonin 'yan gudun hijira a Turai bayan Yaƙin Duniya na II da cibiyoyin sha a Isra'ila.[1]
Aiki siyasa
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Kafin kafa jam'iyyar masu sassaucin ra'ayi, ya kasance tare da mai ba da shawara Jack Unterhalter, daya daga cikin kungiyoyi masu sassaucin ra'ayi guda uku a Johannesburg. [7] Samuwar tasu ta nemi kulla alaka da jam'iyyar National Congress ta Afirka da kuma majalisar dokokin Indiya ta Afirka ta Kudu.[7]
Ya kasance memba na kafa jam'iyyar Liberal Party, yana halartar taron farko a Cape Town a shekarar 1953.[4] Ya cimma burinsa na farko ne ta hanyar kafa tarurruka tsakanin jam'iyyar da ANC. Duk da haka, ya bayyana takaicinsa: "Ban ji daɗin yadda yawancin mambobin kwamitin ƙasa suka yi wa jam'iyyar ANC ba... Na fahimci matsalolin da ke tasowa daga bambance-bambancen mutumtaka da ANC amma ina jin tsoron cewa wasu daga cikin mambobinmu ba za su iya raba wannan daga kyakkyawar rawar da jam'iyyar ta ANC ke takawa ba. Ba na jin dacewar sake buɗe tattaunawa tare da ci gaba da tafiyar da su zuwa ga ANC na yau da kullum." [7]
Ya gina tushen goyon bayan jam'iyyar a Transvaal kuma ya yi aiki a muƙamai da dama a matsayin shugaba na Transvaal da mataimakin shugaban ƙasa. Ya kuma kasance mabuɗi da aka shirya wa jam’iyyar kuma ya jagoranci tarukan ta.[8]
Gwamnatin nuna wariyar launin fata ta yi masa kallon barazana tare da hana shi halartar duk wani taro na tsawon shekaru biyu. Bayan kisan gillar da aka yi a Sharpeville a shekarar 1960, an ayyana dokar ta-ɓaci kuma an ɗaure shi na tsawon watanni 3.[1][2]
Rayuwa ta sirri
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Ya auri Eileen Lurie kuma sun haifi 'ya'ya uku tare. Ɗansa, Roy, daga baya ya yi aliyah zuwa Isra'ila, inda ya zama ɗan jarida.[9]
Mutuwa
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]Ya mutu daga cutar sankarar bargo a ranar 30 ga watan Janairu 1962, watanni 18 bayan sakinsa a kurkuku.[1][2] Ya bar matarsa da ’ya’yansa, da kuma mahaifiyarsa Saratu. Sarah ta mutu a Netanya a Isra'ila a shekarar 1982 kuma Eileen ta mutu a shekarar 2010 a Johannesburg.
Manazarta
[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Feinberg, Tali (7 December 2020). Unsung hero who fought fascism, racism revealed in son’s book The South African Jewish Report. Retrieved on 4 February 2025
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Isacowitz, Roy (7 February 2012). Jock Isacowitz remembered Politicsweb. Retrieved on 4 February 2025
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 (22 February 1962). Jock Isacowitz - Completely Dedicated in the Struggle for Democracy Contact. Retrieved on 4 February 2025
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bernstein, Rusty (2017). Memory Against Forgetting Memoir of a Time in South African Politics 1938 - 1964. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9781776141562.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Shimoni, Gideon (2003). Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. New England: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press.
- ↑ Murray, Bruce (2022). WITS: The 'Open' Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1939-1959. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. p. 103. ISBN 9781776148127.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Everatt, David (2009). The Origins of Non-Racialism: White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s. Johannesburg: Wits University Press. ISBN 9781868147991.
- ↑ Brown, Peter (March 1962). Jock Isacowitz Liberal Opinion. Retrieved on 4 February 2025
- ↑ Derfner, Larry (14 November 2020). An Israeli Search for a South African Icon: A Son’s Biography of His Father Haaretz. Retrieved on 4 February 2025