President Hage Geingob has reflected on his last moments with slain struggle icon Anton Lubowski, who was assassinated 34 years ago today.
“Comrade Anton Lubowski and I were waiting for the plane that was supposed to bring back comrade Sam Nujoma [from exile]. Comrade Lubowski and I went out to have something to eat,” the president recalled on Tuesday.
“He asked his staff to go back. After we parted ways, I later received a call from his wife informing me that comrade Lubowski was killed. May his soul rest in peace,” Geingob recounted.
Lubowski, who was a prominent lawyer and Swapo member, was assassinated in front of his house in Windhoek on the evening of 12 September 1989. He was 37 years old when he was murdered.
A High Court inquest into the killing ended in 1994 with a finding that Lubowski had been murdered by a hit squad belonging to a secret South African military unit that was aiming to disrupt the run-up to Namibia’s pre-independence elections near the end of 1989.
Several Swapo stalwarts also remembered Lubowski’s contribution to the liberation struggle on the anniversary of his death this year.
Former Cabinet minister Helmut Angula and former Swapo secretary general and Cabinet member Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana described Lubowski as a freedom fighter who resisted racism.
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