Douglas Stephen Bax

Douglas Stephen Bax MDiv limamin Afirka ta Kudu, marubuci kuma mai fafutuka. Wanda ya taɓa zama Mai Gudanar da Cocin Presbyterian a Kudancin Afirka, ya kasance fitaccen mai adawa da nuna wariyar launin fata a matsayin babban mawaƙin Hammanskraal Resolution, takardar da ta yi kira ga dukan 'yan Afirka ta Kudu masu lamiri da su zama masu adawa da lamiri kuma su ƙi yin aiki a Rundunar Tsaro ta Afirka ta Kudu kafin ƙarshen mulkin nuna wariyar launin fata. An karɓi takardar a matsayin martani na hukuma na Majalisar Cocin Afirka ta Kudu game da kisan kiyashin Sharpeville, wanda ya faru a cikin shekarar 1960.         

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Bax a Benoni, Afirka ta Kudu. Iyalin mahaifiyarsa, Hattinghs, sun kasance fitattun dangin Afrikaner; Kakansu na farko na bakin haure, Hans Heinrich Hattingh, ya kasance mai burger kyauta na Kamfanin Gabashin Indiya na Dutch a cikin shekarar 1600s kuma ya taɓa mallakar gidan tarihi na Spier a Stellenbosch. Kakannin mahaifin Bax, a halin da ake ciki, suna cikin baƙi na Burtaniya waɗanda nan da nan suka bi majagaba na shekarar 1820 Mazauna.  

Bayan ya yi karatu a Jami'ar Rhodes, Bax ya halarci makarantar digiri na biyu a Makarantar tauhidi ta Princeton a Amurka da Jami'ar Georg August a Jamus. Ya sami ƙwararriyar ikon Ubangiji a wannan lokacin. Bayan ya koma Afirka ta Kudu, an naɗa  shi minista na Cocin Presbyterian na Kudancin Afirka. Yayin da yake aiki dabam-dabam a matsayin mai wa'azi da malami a cikin shekaru masu yawa, Bax ya zama mai himma a cikin martanin coci ga mulkin nuna wariyar launin fata, tsarin tilasta wariyar launin fata a hukumance wanda aka yi a Afirka ta Kudu tun a shekarar 1948.

Bayan kisan gillar da gwamnatin 'yan kishin ƙasa  ta yi wa ɗalibai baƙaƙen fata a Sharpeville a ranar 21 ga watan Maris, 1960, Bax ya kasance mai tsattsauran ra'ayi, kuma ya fara bayar da shawarwari ga jama'ar Afirka ta Kudu  baƙaƙe da farare don adawa da manufofinta da kuma hana mulkinsa ta hanyar rashin biyayya.  A tarukan Kiristanci na gaba, Bax da abokinsa Dominee Beyers Naudé na Cocin Reformed na Dutch sun jajirce wajen ɗaukar wannan matsayi na Ikilisiya a matsayin manufofin hukuma.

A lokacin wani babban taro na Majalisar Cocin Afirka ta Kudu a Hammanskraal a cikin shekarar 1974, Bax da Naudé sun ba da shawara kuma sun ba da shawara bi da bi a kan wani kudurin neman ƙin yarda da imaninsu dangane da shiga aikin soja, wanda ke tilasta wa matasan Afirka ta Kudu haɓaka ƙasar wariyar launin fata ta hanyar hidimar dole ba tare da la’akari da ra'ayinsu na siyasa ba.   Bax ya tsara takarda ta ƙarshe, tare da taimako daga Naudé da wani abokin tarayya, kuma a ƙarshe an ɗauke ta a matsayin ƙudurin ƙarshe na SACC a ƙarshen taron.  Wannan zai zama babbar gudummawar Kirista ga yakin duniya na kawar da wariyar launin fata.

Bayan zaɓen Nelson Mandela na ƙarshe a cikin shekarar 1994, Bax ya ci gaba da zama mai wa'azi a wata babbar coci a Rondebosch. Daga ƙarshe ya yi ritaya daga shugabancinsa a shekarar 2002.

 Rayuwa ta sirri 
Bax ya auri Betty Bax (née Vintcent) a shekara ta 1971.   Ɗansu Michael zai girma ya zama mai ƙwazo a cikin Coci. 

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