Hugh Lewin

Hugh Lewin (3 Disamba 1939 - 16 Janairu 2019)   ɗan gwagwarmayar adawa da nuna wariyar launin fata ne kuma marubuci ɗan Afirka ta Kudu. An ɗaure shi daga shekarun 1964 zuwa 1971 saboda ayyukansa na goyon bayan ƙungiyar gwagwarmaya ta Afirka, sannan ya kwashe shekaru 20 yana gudun hijira, ya koma Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 1992. Wani asusun gwaninta, Bandiet (Afrikaans: "bandit"), ya lashe kyautar Zaitun Schreiner a shekarar 2003.

 Rayuwar farko 
An haifi Lewin a Lydenburg, sannan a cikin Transvaal. Iyayensa sun kasance masu mishan na Anglican, William da Muriel (née Paynter).   Mahaifinsa, William, ɗan'uwan Francis Lewin , kyaftin na HMS Veronica, (kuma babban kakan John Rees-Evans).

A London a cikin shekarar 1970s, Lewin ya gano cewa yana da zuriyar Yahudawa ta uwa, amma shi ba Bayahude ba ne.Lewin, Hugh (2011), Stones Against the Mirror: Friendship in the time of the South African Struggle, Cape Town: Umuzi.  Retrieved 24 February 2019. 

Ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Rhodes sannan ya zama ɗan jarida a Natal Witness a Pietermaritzburg, kuma yana rubutu a mujallar Drum da Golden City Post a Johannesburg.

 Gwagwarmayar yaƙi da wariyar launin fata 
Ya shiga jam'iyyar Liberal Party a shekarar 1959.  Lewin ya kasance mai fafutukar yaki da nuna wariyar launin fata, kuma an ɗaure shi na tsawon shekaru bakwai daga watan Yuli 1964 saboda ayyukansa na goyon bayan ƙungiyar Resistance Movement na Afirka. Abokansa da ’yan gwagwarmaya Adrian Leftwich (wanda ya kasance mafi kyawun mutum a bikin auren Lewin) da John Lloyd sun ba da shaida a kansa. Bayan ya cika shekaru bakwai a gidan yari a gidan yari na Pretoria, an ba shi "iznin tashi na dindindin" kuma ya bar Afirka ta Kudu a cikin shekarar 1971.

 Ƙaura 
Lewin ya rayu tsawon shekaru 10 kowanne a London da Zimbabwe.  A London, ya kasance jami'in yada labarai na Asusun Tsaro da Agaji na Duniya, kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin ɗan jarida don The Observer da The Guardian. Ya koma Zimbabwe sabuwar 'yancin kai a cikin shekarar 1981, ya kasance memba na ƙungiyar Dambudzo Marechera Trust.

 Komawa Afirka ta Kudu 
Ya koma Afirka ta Kudu a shekara ta 1992, a cikin tattaunawar kawo ƙarshen mulkin nuna wariyar launin fata a Afirka ta Kudu.  Ya zama darakta na Cibiyar Ci gaban aikin Jarida. Shi ne ya kafa Baobab Press tare da Irene Staunton.Bookworm (22 June 2015), "The Patriot and expatriots", The Standard (Zimbabwe).  Yayi aiki da hukumar gaskiya da sulhu a matsayin memba na kwamitinta na take hakkin ɗan adam. 

Ya adana bayanan sirri na abubuwan da ya faru a kurkuku a shafukan Littafi Mai-Tsarki, kuma ya buga Bandiet: Seven Years a Kurkuku na Afirka ta Kudu a London a cikin shekarar 1974 (sunan Bandiet na Afrikaans don "'yan fashi"). Ya kuma rubuta jerin littattafan “Jafta” na yara da matasa. Bayan da aka dakatar da shi na shekaru da yawa, an sake buga tarihin gidan yari na shekarar 1974 a Afirka ta Kudu tare da sababbin abubuwa a cikin shekarar 2002, kamar yadda Bandiet: Daga Jail, wanda Harold Strachan ya kwatanta. Ya lashe kyautar Olive Schreiner na shekarar 2003, kuma Duwatsu a kan Mirror sun sami lambar yabo ta Sunday Times Alan Paton a shekarar 2011.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Ya auri Pat Davidson, lauya. Suna da 'ya'ya mata biyu, Thandi da Tessa. Daga baya sun sake aure, kuma abokin tarayya na shekaru da yawa shine Fiona Lloyd. Ya sha wahala tare da Lewy dementia a cikin shekarunsa na baya.  Ya mutu a Killarney, Johannesburg.

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 2019
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1939