Ahmed Timol

Ahmed Timole (3 Nuwamba 1941 - 27 Oktoba 1971) ya kasance mai fafutukar yaki da nuna wariyar launin fata a ƙarƙashin jam'iyyar gurguzu ta Afirka ta Kudu. Ya rasu yana da shekaru 29 a duniya sakamakon raunukan da ya samu a lokacin da ya faɗo daga saman beni na ofishin 'yan sanda na dandalin John Vorster a birnin Johannesburg. 'Yan sanda sun yi iƙirarin, kuma wani bincike na hukuma ya tabbatar, cewa Timole ya kashe kansa ta hanyar tsalle ta taga.  An kafirta da'awar a ko'ina cikin ƙungiyoyin adawa da wariyar launin fata, kuma a cikin motsin mutuwar Timol ya zama alama ce ta babban abin da ya faru na mutuwa a hannun 'yan sanda, da kuma cin zarafi da rashin gaskiya na mulkin nuna wariyar launin fata.

A cikin shekarar 2017, an sake buɗe binciken mutuwar Timol. An gano cewa an azabtar da Timol a gidan yari kuma ya faɗo daga tagar ne domin jami'an 'yan sanda sun tura shi, ba don ya yi tsalle ba. 

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi Timol a cikin shekarar 1941 a Breyten, Transvaal (yanzu yanki na Mpumalanga), a cikin babban dangin musulmi na zuriyar Gujarati.  Timol yana ɗaya daga cikin yara shida, yana da ƴan'uwa mata biyu, Zubeida da Aysha, da kanne uku, Ismail, Mohammed da Haroon. Mahaifinsa, mai shago, ya zo Afirka ta Kudu a cikin shekarar 1918, yana ɗan shekara 12, daga gundumar Kholvad na Surat a yammacin Indiya.  Timol ya shiga ruƙunin Nazarin Matasa na Roodepoort na Semi-Clandestine yayin da yake ɗalibi a Makarantar Sakandaren Indiya ta Johannesburg,  kuma ya zama abokai a makaranta tare da 'yan'uwan Aziz Pahad da Essop Pahad, dukansu za su zama fitattun masu fafutukar adawa da nuna wariyar launin fata. 
Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin magatakarda na wasu shekaru, Timol ya sami gurbin karatu daga Khholvad Madressa a Surat don ci gaba da karatun koyarwa a Cibiyar Horar da Koyarwa ta Johannesburg don Malaman Indiyawa, ita ce kawai cibiyar koyar da ilimi mafi girma ga Indiyawa a Transvaal a lokacin. Ya kasance mataimakin shugaban majalisar wakilai na ɗalibai daga shekarun 1962 zuwa 1963, kuma SRC ta zama reshen ƙungiyar daliban Afirka ta Kudu ta ƙasa  a shekarar 1963. [ <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">abubuwan da ake bukata</span> ]

Bayan koyarwa na wani lokaci a wata makaranta a Roodepoort, a shekarar 1966 Timol ya bar Afirka ta Kudu zuwa Makka don aikin Hajji. A Saudi Arabiya, Yusuf Dadoo, shugaban Transvaal Indian Congress kuma shugaban jam'iyyar gurguzu ta Afirka ta Kudu (SACP), da Moulvi Cachalia, wani hamshakin attajiri na Afirka ta Kudu (ANC) ya samu kwarin gwiwa. A cikin watan Afrilu 1967, Timole ya tafi London, inda ya zauna tare da Pahads.  Ya ɗauki aikin koyarwa a Makarantar Shige da Fice a Slough, wanda ya ba shi kuɗi, ya zama memba mai ƙwazo na Ƙungiyar Malamai ta ƙasa kuma ya haɗu da Ruth Longoni, wacce ta yi aiki a wata-wata na Labor, wata jarida ta Rajani Palme Dutt na Jam'iyyar Kwaminisanci ta Birtaniya. Su biyun sun kusa yin aure, amma Timol ya tafi Moscow a Tarayyar Soviet a shekarar 1969, saboda an zabe shi don yin karatu a Makarantar Lenin ta Duniya. An horar <span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2021)">da</span> [ ] akidar Marxist-Leninist, tare da wasu 'yan Afirka ta Kudu guda uku, ɗaya daga cikinsu Thabo Mbeki, sannan ɗan gurguzu, daga baya shugaban ƙasar Afirka ta Kudu.  Bayan kammala karatunsa, Tiol ya koma London kuma ya sami ƙarin horo na makonni huɗu daga Jack Hodgson, memba na SACP a gudun hijira. 

A cikin watan Fabrairu 1970, Timole ya koma Roodepoort kuma ya ci gaba da koyarwa. Ya kasance mai aiki a SACP da Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), reshen jam'iyyar ANC, duk da cewa an dakatar da su a shekarar 1960. Ayyukansa na siyasa sun hada da ɗaukar ma'aikata na ANC, MK da SACP, samarwa da rarraba ƙasidu, da kuma sayen kayan aiki na gine-ginen ƙarƙashin ƙasa.

 Manazarta 

Rukuni:Mutuwan 1971
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1941