ISydney Kentridge

 

USir Sydney Woolf Kentridge KCMG KC I-SCOB (owazalwa ngo-5 November 1922) ungumumeli owazalelwa eNingizimu Afrika, uyijaji futhi uyilungu le-Bar yaseNgilandi naseWales. Wayesebenza njengomumeli eNingizimu Afrika nase-I-United Kingdom kusukela ngawo-1940 kwaze kwaba yilapho ethatha umhlalaphansi ngo-2013. ENingizimu Afrika, wadlala indima eyinhloko ezinhlobeni eziningi zezombusazwe ezibaluleke kakhulu enkathini yobandlululo, kufaka phakathi i-Treason Trial UNelson Mandela kanye nokuphenya ngo-1978 ngokufa kukaSteve Biko. UmkaKentridge, UFelicia Kentridge, naye wayengumumeli oholayo omelene nobandlululo.

UKentridge wazalwa ngo-1922 eGoli, indodana yomumeli ongumJuda futhi ongusombusazwe waseLithuania uMorris Kentridge (ozalwa nguKantrovitch; 1881-1964). USydney Kentridge wafunda eGoli King Edward VII School, ngaphambi kokufunda e-University of Witwatersrand. Wathola iziqu ngo-1942, futhi wakhonza phakathi IMpi Yezwe Yesibili njengesikhulu sobuhloli eButhweni laseNingizimu Afrika IMpumalanga Afrika nase-Italy. Ngemva kwempi, wafunda e-Exeter College, e-Oxford, ngesibonelelo sesosha langaphambili, futhi waphothula nge-BA ye-first-class ku-Jurisprudence ngo-1948.

Ngo-1949, ngemuva kokusebenza isikhashana njengonobhala wejaji, uKentridge wamukelwa njengomumeli INkantolo Ephakeme YaseNingizimu Afrika. Wakhethwa njengoMumeli Omkhulu ngo-1965. Waba ngumumeli oholayo ekuvikeleni amacala ezombusazwe eNingizimu Afrika, namanye amacala akhe amakhulu ahlanganisa i-Treason Trial (1956-61), lapho avikela khona UNelson Mandela, kanye ne-Jison Trial (1968-69). Umphikisi oqinile Ubandlululo, uKentridge wamelela abathathu abawinile uMklomelo kaNobel Peace Prize ngesikhathi somsebenzi wakhe - uMandela, UDesmond Tutu no-U-Albert Luthuli.

Ngo-1978, wamelela umndeni womshisekeli omelene nobandlululo UStephen Biko ekuphenyeni ngemuva kokufa kukaBiko ejele ngamaphoyisa ngo-12 September 1977. "Kukhona ubufakazi obungenakuphikiswa," UKentridge wathi phakathi nokuphenya, "ukuthi...Mnu Biko wangena egunjini lokuphenya ephila futhi ephilile...[kodwa] waphuma ephazamisekile ngokomzimba nangokwengqondo. Wafa ngokufa okudabukisayo nokwedelela phansi kwejele elibandayo. "U.Lord Alexander waseWeedon wabhala ngokusebenza kwakhe: "Ngokuhlolwa okubulalayo nokusheshayo, ngezinye izikhathi ngokuhlekisa okuphazamisayo, uKentridge wasungula ukuthi umsungu we-Black Conscious Movement wabulawa ngonya ngamaphoyisa uFy.[but]