Eddie Daniels (political activist)

Edward Daniels OLS (25 Oktoba 1928 - 30 Nuwamba 2017) tsohon ɗan gwagwarmayar yaƙi da wariyar launin fata ne ɗan Afirka ta Kudu wanda ya kwashe shekaru goma sha biyar a matsayin fursunonin siyasa a tsibirin Robben, a cikin shekarun da Nelson Mandela yake ɗaure a can.http://www.cvet.org.za/displayvideo.php?vid=2D-F5-51  CVET interview video 

 Rayuwar farko 
Tare da mahaifin da aka haifa a Ingila da mahaifiyar mai Launi, Daniels an rarraba shi ta atomatik a matsayin mai launi, lokacin da ya saba da shi. Ya fi son a kira shi Afirka ta Kudu. Yaronsa ya kasance mai farin ciki sosai a unguwanni na Gundumar shida da Lavender Hill, Cape Town. Tattaunawa da ƙungiyoyi da rashin adalci na 'yan sanda sun taimaka wajen samar da ra'ayoyinsa na adalci da halin kirki. Da yake zaune kusa da Table Mountain, Daniels da abokansa suna da damar da za su iya ciyar da lokaci a kan hanya da hawa.

 Ilimi da aiki 
Daniels ya halarci makarantun gida, kuma ya kammala karatunsa tare da daidaitattun takaddun shaida shida (aji takwas). Yana da ƙananan ayyuka daban-daban yayin da yake ɗan makaranta, kuma a ƙarshe, jim kaɗan bayan ƙarshen yakin duniya na biyu, Daniels ya yi ƙoƙari ya shiga cikin jirgin ruwa na Merchant, amma dole ne ya jinkirta wannan buri har zuwa daga baya, a cikin shekarar 1954, ya sami damar tafiya whaling.  Bayan kwanakinsa a cikin teku, Daniels ya shiga kasuwancin ma'adinan lu'u-lu'u a Oranjemund, inda ya yi amfani da manyan injuna don share tudun yashi. Tun da babu wanda ya tambaya, an karɓi Daniels a matsayin fari.  Kyawawan daji da zaman kadaici a teku da cikin sahara duk sun burge shi. Tunaninsa na abubuwan da suka faru kamar su farautar kifin kifi na iya yin tasiri mai ɗorewa ga masu sauraronsa. An kashe mutum 94 Ft whale a Antarctica shine irin wannan taron. Ya iya isar da tsoro da al'ajabi a cikin irin waɗannan abubuwan tunawa.

 Gwagwarmaya 
Daniels ya kasance mai fahimta musamman, kuma ba da daɗewa ba aka fahimci rashin daidaiton da ke kewaye da shi. A cikin shekarar 1952 ya fara zama mai himma, halartar tarurruka da zanga-zangar zanga-zanga. Wannan kuma shine farkon shigar Daniels tare da gidansa na siyasa, Jam'iyyar Liberal. 

 Siyasa 
Da ya dawo daga Oranjemund zuwa Cape Town, Daniels ya fahimci ƙarin rashin adalci ta hanyar shigarsa cikin kasuwancin hoto. Ya fara ganin irin azabar da mutane suka sha don kawai ba farare ba ne. Bayan shiga cikin zanga-zangar daban-daban, ya gano cewa Jam'iyyar Liberal Party ta Afirka ta Kudu wacce daga baya ta zama African Resistance Movement a shekarar 1961 ta amince da ka'idodin (dimokuraɗiyya da adalci a Afirka ta Kudu wanda ba launin fata ba) wanda yake da daraja. "Rana ce ta farin ciki da na shiga jam'iyyar Liberal Party of Africa ta Kudu (LP), domin a can na haɗu da wasu mutane masu kyau da jajirtattun mutane masu sadaukar da kai ga ka'idojin rashin wariyar launin fata da adalci."  Lokacin da Daniels ya gaya wa Walter Sisulu yadda ya shiga LP, Sisulu ya yi mamakin cewa Daniels kawai ya tashi ya shiga kungiya bisa ka'idodinta. 

Ta hanyar gwagwarmayar LP da ƙungiyoyin da ke da alaƙa da su, Daniels ya shiga cikin ayyukan zagon ƙasa wanda a ƙarshe ya kai shi zama ɗan fursuna na siyasa. 

 Ɗauri 
Daga shekarun 1964 zuwa 1979, Daniels yana tsare - don yawancin lokacin a tsibirin Robben. Ya bayyana irin abubuwan da ya faru da jami’an kotu da ‘yan sanda da masu kula da gidajen yari da abokan zaman gidan yari da gaskiya da ban dariya a cikin tarihin rayuwarsa. Ko da yake shi ba memba ne na African National Congress, yana kusa da Nelson Mandela, kuma sau da yawa an ware shi don musayar bayanai.  Bayan an sake shi daga kurkuku, an tsare Daniels a gidan kurkuku har zuwa watan Yuli 1983."Eddie Daniels", South African History Online.

A lokacin da yake gidan yari, Daniels ya sami damar ci gaba da karatunsa, inda ya sami digiri na BA da BComm. Bayan da aka ɗage dokar hana shi, ya samu takardar shaidar kammala koyarwa kuma ya fara aikin koyarwa - a lokacin tashin hankalin dalibai da zanga-zangar.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
A lokacin da ake tsare da shi a gundumar Magisterial na Cape Town, Daniels ya sabunta abokantakarsa da Eleanor Buchanan (yanzu gwauruwa) wanda ya sani tun zamanin Oranjemund. Ba su iya yin aure ba kamar yadda Eleanor ya kasance fari, kuma kawai samun dangantaka mai tsanani yana hadarin karya doka. A cikin shekarar 1983, Daniels da Eleanor sun yi aure wanda ya saba wa Dokar Yankunan Rukuni. Bayan shekaru bakwai, bayan soke dokar, sun sake yin aure, bisa doka, kuma za su yi shekaru masu yawa na farin ciki tare har mutuwar Eleanor a shekarar 2001."Author, anti-apartheid activist Eddie Daniels to speak Oct. 24" , College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, 16 October 2006

Daniels sau da yawa yakan yi balaguro zuwa ƙasashen waje don yin magana a abubuwan da suka faru, yawanci yanayin ilimi, inda ya yawaita gode wa mutane don tallafi a cikin shekaru masu wahala.  

A cikin shekarar 2014, an nemi Daniels da ya jagoranci bikin Swim na 'Yanci na shekara-shekara, a zaman wani bangare na bikin shekaru 20 na dimokuraɗiyya a Afirka ta Kudu. The Freedom Swim, daga Robben Island zuwa Big Bay, ya kasance yana kokawa a lokacin, saboda yanayi mai wuya da kuma rikitaccen yanayin taron. Shigar da Daniels ya yi ya taimaka wajen haifar da sabuwar rayuwa a cikin taron, kuma jawabin da ya yi a wurin bayar da lambar yabo ya zaburar da sabbin ƴan wasan ninkaya, waɗanda da yawa daga cikinsu daga yanayi da nasa.

Eddie Daniels ya mutu ranar 30 ga watan Nuwamba 2017 a Somerset West, Western Cape, Afirka ta Kudu. 

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