Jonty Driver

Jonty Driver
Rayuwa
Cikakken suna	Charles Jonathan Driver
Haihuwa	Cape Town, 19 ga Augusta, 1939
ƙasa	Afirka ta kudu
Mutuwa	Bristol, 21 Mayu 2023
Ƴan uwa
Mahaifi	Kingsley Driver
Karatu
Makaranta	Jami'ar Cape Town Trinity College (en)
Harsuna	Turanci
Sana'a
Sana'a	marubuci da maiwaƙe
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Charles Jonathan Direba (19 ga Agusta 1939 - 21 ga Mayu 2023), wanda aka fi sani da Jonty Driver, ɗan gwagwarmayar yaƙi da wariyar launin fata ne na Afirka ta Kudu, fursunonin siyasa, masanin ilimi, mawaƙi kuma marubuci.

Rayuwar farko

An haifi Charles Jonathan Driver a Cape Town a shekara ta 1939 amma ya shafe shekarun yakin duniya na biyu a Kroonstad da Cradock tare da mahaifiyarsa da ƙanensa da kakansa, wanda shi ne shugaban cocin Anglican a can. A wannan lokacin, mahaifin Direba ya yi hidimar yaƙi a Arewacin Afirka, kuma sojojin Axis sun kama shi a Tobruk, yana kashe sauran yakin a matsayin fursuna na yaƙi a Italiya da Jamus. Lokacin da ya dawo Afirka ta Kudu, dangin sun ƙaura zuwa Grahamstown a Gabashin Cape, inda aka naɗa mahaifinsa limami a Kwalejin St. Andrew kuma daga baya Jonty ya yi karatunsa.

Kwanakin dalibai

Driver yayi karatun digirinsa na farko a Jami'ar Cape Town (UCT). An zabe shi a matsayin shugaban kungiyar daliban Afirka ta Kudu a 1963 da kuma a 1964. A watan Agusta da Satumba 1964, 'yan sanda sun tsare shi ba tare da gurfanar da shi ba, kuma an tsare shi a gidan kurkuku na tsawon makonni biyar a karkashin dokar tsare mutane na kwanaki 90, watakila saboda zarginsa da hannu a cikin kungiyar Resistance Movement na Afirka . Bayan an sake shi nan take ya tafi Ingila. Ya tafi Trinity College, Oxford, don yin karatu a M.Phil.

Yayin da yake Oxford, hukumomin Afirka ta Kudu sun ƙi sabunta fasfo ɗinsa kuma ya zama ba shi da ƙasa tsawon shekaru da yawa, daga ƙarshe ya zama ɗan ƙasar Burtaniya. Fiye da shekaru ashirin, an hana shi komawa Afirka ta Kudu.

Yi aiki a cikin ilimi

Bayan lokacinsa a Oxford, Direba ya koyar a Makarantar Sevenoaks a Kent sannan kuma a Makarantar Sakandare ta Matthew Humberstone a Lincolnshire (tsohon Humberside ) bayan 1973, inda ya kasance Daraktan Nazarin Form na shida. Ya rubuta Patrick Duncan: Afirka ta Kudu da Pan-African yayin da yake hutu daga makaranta a 1976 kuma kafin ya ɗauki alƙawarinsa na gaba.

A cikin 1976, ya kasance Fellow Fellow a Jami'ar York, kuma tsawon shekaru 23, ya kasance shugaba (Principal, Island School, Hong Kong, 1978-83; Headmaster, Berkhamsted School, 1983-9; Master, Wellington College, 1989-2000).

Sana'ar rubutu

Tun daga watan Nuwamba na 2019, Direba ya kasance marubuci na cikakken lokaci, kodayake ya ci gaba da sa hannu a cikin ilimi. A cikin aikinsa, ya buga litattafai na wakoki 10 (mafi kwanan nan Har yanzu Gaba: Sabbin Waƙoƙi ), litattafan shayari guda biyar (na kwanan nan, Ranar Winter a Westonbirt ), litattafai biyar, tarihin rayuwa da tarihin tarihi guda biyar, da kuma littafin aya ga yara.

Direba ya kasance, As of November 2019 , Babban malami mai daraja a Makarantar Adabi da Rubutun Ƙirƙira, Jami'ar Gabashin Anglia, wani matsayi da ya gudanar tun 2007.

Direba ya kasance alkali don Kyautar Caine don Rubutun Afirka, 2007 da 2008. Ya kasance ɗan'uwan Gidauniyar Bogliasco a cikin 2007. Ya kasance ɗan'uwanmu a MacDowell Colony a New Hampshire, Amurka, a cikin faɗuwar 2009, kuma ɗan'uwa a Komawar Marubuta Hawthornden a cikin Maris/Afrilu 2011.

Rayuwa ta sirri da mutuwa

Jonty Driver ya yi aure, yana da ‘ya’ya uku da jikoki takwas. Ya rasu a ranar 21 ga Mayu, 2023, yana da shekaru 83.

Aiyukan da aka zaɓa

• History of the Relations Between NUSAS, the ASB and the Afrikaans University Centres: Covering the Period 1960–1963. Supplement. National Union of South African Students. 1964. with Adrian Leftwich
• Jack Cope. D. Philip. 1979. ISBN 978-0-908396-11-5.
• Patrick Duncan: South African and Pan-African. Heinemann. 1980. ISBN 978-0-435-96200-5.
  • Patrick Duncan: South African and Pan-African (Paperback ed.). James Currey. 2000. ISBN 9780852557730.
• Elegy for a Revolutionary. David Philip. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86486-015-6.
• Hong Kong Portraits. Perpetua Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-9511667-0-3.
• "Used to be Great Friends". Granta: 7–26. 2002.
• So Far: Selected Poems, 1960–2004. Snailpress. 2005. ISBN 978-1-904724-27-8.
• A Messiah of the Last Days. Faber & Faber. 2010. ISBN 978-0-571-27000-2.
• Death of Fathers. Faber & Faber. 2011. ISBN 978-0-571-26050-8.
• Send War in Our Time, O Lord. Faber & Faber. 2011. ISBN 978-0-571-25965-6.
• The Man with the Suitcase: The Life, Execution and Rehabilitation of John Harris, Liberal Terrorist. Cape Town: Crane River. 2015. ISBN 9780620668521.
• "Alan Paton's Hofmeyr". Race & Class. 6 (4): 269–280. 1965. doi:10.1177/030639686500600403. ISSN 0306-3968. S2CID 143844131.
• "Rhodes? The swine did some good". Rand Daily Mail. 20 March 2015. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
• Some Schools. John Catt Educational. 30 November 2016. ISBN 9781909717978. (About the five schools at which Driver worked)
• Before. Crane River in association with the Africa Sun Press. August 2018. ISBN 9781874915324. (A collection of 22 poems)

Manazarta

Majiya

• Eve, Jeanette (2003). A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape: Places and the Voices of Writers. Juta and Company Ltd. ISBN 978-1-919930-15-2.
• Sleeman, Elizabeth (2003). Europa Publications (ed.). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
• Theron, Bridget (2004). The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1970–1980. Unisa Press. ISBN 978-1-86888-406-3.
• "Jonty Driver". South African History Online. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

Ƙara karatu

• Beresford, David (2010). Truth is a Strange Fruit: A Personal Journey Through the Apartheid War. Jacana Media. ISBN 978-1-77009-902-9.
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• Nagan, Winston P (2005). "Truth, Reconciliation, and the Fragility of Heroic Activism". Global Jurist Advances. 5 (1). doi:10.2202/1535-1661.1148. ISSN 1535-1661. S2CID 144048368.