Lubowski family sets up trust

THE family of assassinated lawyer and Swapo member Anton Lubowski have started an educational trust bearing his name with the aim of supporting education in South Africa and Namibia.

The Anton Lubowski Educational Trust has been registered for the purpose of collecting and distributing sponsorships and donations with the aim of furthering education and skills development in South Africa and Namibia, Lubowski’s wife, Gabrielle Lubowski, has informed The Namibian. The Trust plans to focus on disadvantaged communities and sees its role as contributing to establishing urgently needed schools where no facilities exist at all, assisting existing, under-resourced schools, providing education and training to not only children of school age but also to teachers and semi-skilled or unskilled adults, and providing job placement assistance to school graduates and disadvantaged adults alike.The trust has chosen a school and education centre in Philippi in the Western Cape as a first, flagship project to become involved in.In that project, the trust has agreed with the iThemba Labantu Community Centre, run by the Lutheran Church in Philippi, to put the existing iThemba Pre-School under the trust’s administration.The Trust has four trustees: Gabrielle Lubowski, Annaliese Lubowski, who is a sister of Anton Lubowski, and the slain lawyer’s children, Almo, who is also a lawyer, and Nadia, who is a teacher.Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the patron of the trust.Lubowski was assassinated in front of his home in Windhoek’s Sanderburg Street on the evening of September 12 1989.Although an inquest into his murder ended in 1994 with High Court Judge Harold Levy finding that Lubowski had been killed by members of a secret division of the South African Defence Force, the Civil Cooperation Bureau, to date nobody has been prosecuted for murdering him.The Trust plans to focus on disadvantaged communities and sees its role as contributing to establishing urgently needed schools where no facilities exist at all, assisting existing, under-resourced schools, providing education and training to not only children of school age but also to teachers and semi-skilled or unskilled adults, and providing job placement assistance to school graduates and disadvantaged adults alike.The trust has chosen a school and education centre in Philippi in the Western Cape as a first, flagship project to become involved in.In that project, the trust has agreed with the iThemba Labantu Community Centre, run by the Lutheran Church in Philippi, to put the existing iThemba Pre-School under the trust’s administration.The Trust has four trustees: Gabrielle Lubowski, Annaliese Lubowski, who is a sister of Anton Lubowski, and the slain lawyer’s children, Almo, who is also a lawyer, and Nadia, who is a teacher.Archbishop Desmond Tutu is the patron of the trust.Lubowski was assassinated in front of his home in Windhoek’s Sanderburg Street on the evening of September 12 1989.Although an inquest into his murder ended in 1994 with High Court Judge Harold Levy finding that Lubowski had been killed by members of a secret division of the South African Defence Force, the Civil Cooperation Bureau, to date nobody has been prosecuted for murdering him.