Patrick van Rensburg

**Patrick van Rensburg** (3 Disamba 1931 - 23 Mayu 2017) ɗan Afirka ta Kudu ne kuma mai fafutukar yaƙi da nuna wariyar launin fata.  A cikin shekarar 1960s, ya kafa makarantar Swaneng Hill a Serowe, Botswana, da Ƙungiyar Brigades na ƙasa a cikin ƙasar. A cikin shekarar 1980s, ya kafa jaridar *Mmegi* ta ƙasa da Gidauniyar Ilimi tare da Samfura, waɗanda suka haɓaka ra'ayoyinsa a Afirka ta Kudu, Botswana, da Zimbabwe.  A cikin shekarar 1981, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Dama Livelihood Award "saboda haɓaka ƙirar ilimi mai mahimmanci ga mafi yawan duniya ta uku".

## Rayuwa
An haifi Van Rensburg a Durban, Afirka ta Kudu. Iyayensa sun rabu tun yana ƙarami, kuma kakarsa Afrikaner da mijinta ɗan ƙasar Mauritius ne suka rene shi. Iyalin suna magana da Ingilishi a gida kuma sun kasance 'yan Roman Katolika: babban bambanci daga tarbiyyar Afirkaner na gargajiya. Van Rensburg ya halarci Kwalejin Marist Brothers' St. Henry da Glenwood High School.  Yana da 'ya'ya uku: maza Mothusi van Rensburg da Thomas van Rensburg, da 'yar Joanna Forbes.

## Ayyukan diflomasiyya da siyasa
Van Rensburg ya kasance mataimakin Consul na Afirka ta Kudu a Jamhuriyar Demokraɗiyyar Kongo (yanzu Jamhuriyar Demokraɗiyyar Kongo) daga watan Fabrairu 1956 zuwa watan Mayu 1957, lokacin da ya yi murabus a matsayin zanga-zangar adawa da manufofin masu nuna wariyar launin fata na Afirka ta Kudu. Ya shiga jam'iyyar Liberal Party ta Afirka ta Kudu, ya zama sakataren jam'iyyar na lardin Transvaal a watan Satumban 1958. 

A cikin shekarar 1959, ya koma Birtaniya, inda kusan nan da nan ya fara taimakawa wajen tsara kamfen na 1960 don ƙauracewa kayayyakin Afirka ta Kudu a Burtaniya da Netherlands. Sauran waɗanda suka shirya da kuma magoya bayan yakin sun haɗa da Julius Nyerere, Trevor Huddleston, Canon John Collins da Tennyson Makiwane. Ba da daɗewa ba Harkar Ƙauracewa ta ƙaru zuwa Ƙungiyar Anti-Apartheid ta Burtaniya. 

Afrikaners ya caccaki Van Rensburg saboda wani ɓangare nasa a yakin, kuma lokacin da ya koma Afirka ta Kudu a shekarar 1960, an kwace fasfo ɗinsa kuma ya tsere ta kan iyaka zuwa Swaziland Protectorate. 

## Botswana

A shekarar 1962, ya koma Bechuanaland Protectorate (yanzu Botswana), inda ya gudanar da ayyuka da yawa na ilimi da zamantakewa. A cikin shekarar 1980s, ya kafa gidauniyar ilimi tare da samarwa. Van Rensburg shi ne ya kafa jaridar Mmegi, babbar jaridar Botswana mai zaman kanta. Jaridar ta fara ne a matsayin wasiƙar wasiƙar Swaneng Hill mai suna "Mmegi wa Dikgang" a Serowe.  A ƙarshen rayuwarsa, ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin dattawan Botswana, wanda ya rubuta shafi na yau da kullum na tsawon shekaru a *Mmegi*, jaridar yau da kullum mai zaman kanta.

Van Rensburg ya mutu a ranar 23 ga watan Mayu 2017 a Serowe.

## Ayyuka

* *Kasa Mai Laifi*. London: Penguin, 1962. Saukewa: ISBN B0000CL9AT
* *Rahoton daga Swaneng Hill*. Uppsala: Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 1974. ISBN&nbsp;
* *Serowe brigades: Madadin ilimi a Botswana*. Macmillan na Gidauniyar Bernard van Leer, 1978.ISBN&nbsp;
* Tare da Andrew Boyd. *Atlas of African Affairs*. London: Methuen, 1962.ISBN&nbsp; .
* Van Rensburg, P. (1971). Sabuwar hanyar bunƙasa karkara. *Bayanan kula na Botswana & Records*, *3* (1), 201–215.
* Van Rensburg, P. (1980). Wani kallo na Serowe Brigades. *Halaye*, *10* (4), 379-391.
* Van Rensburg, P. (1978). Ilimi da samarwa a matsayin lever ga wani ci gaba. *Tattaunawar ci gaba*, *2*, 81-88.

Van Rensburg ya rubuta laƙabi da dama don Gidauniyar Dag Hammarskjöld.

## Kyautattuka

* Kyautar Rayuwa ta Dama ta 1981, tare da Bill Mollison da Mike Cooley

## Manazarta