Essop Jassat

Essop Essak Jassat (an haife shi a ranar 5 ga watan Oktoba 1932) ɗan siyasan Afirka ta Kudu mai ritaya ne kuma likita wanda ya wakilci jam'iyyar National Congress (ANC) a Majalisar Dokoki ta ƙasa daga shekarun 1994 zuwa 2004. Shi tsohon mai fafutukar yaki da nuna wariyar launin fata ne kuma tsohon shugaban jam'iyyar Transvaal Indian Congress.

 Rayuwa ta farko da gwagwarmaya 
An haifi Jassat a ranar 5 ga watan Oktoba 1932 a Vrededorp, Johannesburg a tsohon Transvaal.  Shi ne na biyu a cikin 'ya'ya uku kuma iyayensa biyu sun kasance baƙi daga Indiya.  Ya kammala MBChB a Jami'ar Wits a shekarar 1960. 

A wannan lokacin, Jassat yana aiki a cikin gwagwarmayar yaki da nuna wariyar launin fata; Ya shiga reshen matasa na Transvaal Indian Congress a shekarar 1947, ya zama shugabanta, kuma ya wakilce ta a shekara ta 1955 Congress of the People.   Bob Hepple ya ɗauke shi aiki a cikin sashin sata na ƙarƙashin ƙasa, kuma ɗakin baya a cikin tiyatar da aka yi masa a Johannesburg jami'an Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) ne suka yi amfani da shi wajen adana kayan sabo.  Ya kuma ba da jinya ga babban kwamandan MK a Liliesleaf Farm a cikin makonni kafin kama su a shekarar 1963.  An sanya shi a ƙarƙashin dokar hana shi ta farko a shekarar 1955, kuma a shekarar 1964 ya yi zaman gidan yari na kwanaki goma bayan da aka same shi da laifin kin bin sharuɗɗan haramcin. 

Lokacin da aka sake buɗe taron Transvaal Indian Congress a shekarar 1983, Jassat ya zama shugabanta.  A wannan shekarar ne ya shiga jam'iyyar United Democratic Front (UDF). A cikin shekarar 1984–85, yana cikin shugabannin UDF 16, ciki har da Albertina Sisulu da Archie Gumede, waɗanda aka tuhume su (sannan kuma aka wanke su) na cin amanar ƙasa a cikin gwajin cin amanar ƙasa na Pietermaritzburg.   A lokacin juyin mulkin demokraɗiyya , ya wakilci Majalisar Indiya ta Transvaal a taron Jam'iyyar Demokradiyyar Afirka ta Kudu. 

 Aikin bayan mulkin nuna wariyar launin fata 
A babban zaɓen shekara ta 1994, wanda shi ne na farko a Afirka ta Kudu a ƙarƙashin zaɓen duniya, an zaɓi Jassat a matsayin wakilin jam'iyyar ANC na Afirka a Majalisar Dokoki ta ƙasa, 'yan majalisar wakilai na sabuwar Majalisar Afirka ta Kudu. Ya ci gaba da zama a kujerarsa har zuwa babban zaɓen shekara ta 2004, inda ya sake lashe zaɓe a shekarar 1999.  

Bayan ya bar majalisar, ya koma aikin likita a Fordsburg  har sai da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 2017.  A lokacin, a cikin shekarar 2015, Shugaba Jacob Zuma ya ba shi lambar yabo ta Luthuli a azurfa "saboda kyakkyawar gudunmawar da ya bayar ga gwagwarmayar 'yantar da mulkin demokraɗiyya a Afirka ta Kudu, ta hanyar sadaukar da kai ba tare da la'akari da lafiyarsa da lafiyarsa ba".   A cikin shekarar 2018, ANC ta naɗa shi a cikin Hukumar Integrity na cikin gida, wanda George Mashamba ke jagoranta. 

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Ya auri Shireen Patel a shekarar 1964. Suna da ɗa da ’ya’ya mata biyu.  

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