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NEL, AntonAge Description Church street in Crawford fell very quiet on the morning of 17 November 1989. For seven hours before nervous residents tried not to think about the battle raging between the 40 strong squad of police and army and their unseen enemy at no 149. It has been beyond doubt by statements coming from Military Intelligence officers and analyses of the forged documents produced by the military that Anton Lubowski was never a spy. There seems to be only one way we will ever get to the full truth about Anton Lubowski and have it sanctioned by a ... I’m the father of the late Anton Theodor Lubowski … sorry … Anton was shot and killed at approximately 20 hours 30 on the 12th September and he was about to enter his home at 7 Sanderburg street, Windhoek, Namibia. There’s no doubt that the death of Andre resulted from the politically ... Only four months after the assassination of David Webster the most prominent white member of the Namibian liberation movement, Anton Lubowski, was shot and killed in front of his house in Windhoek. One of the men who conspired to kill him, Irish citizen Donald Acheson, was arrested soon after the ... ... directly with this cheque in his name and these ones in the names of his children’s trust fund? Even on the military requisition form the name Anton appears and military experts claim that the requisition forms were completed in a way that would never have been passed by the army. Another ... There is a possibility that this money was for work that Anton had done other than spying? // Correct. // Julian, you’ve researched this whole case thoroughly. Do you think Anton Lubowski was a spy working for Military Intelligence? // No I do not. // Do you believe he was framed? // I do believe ... people. The National Party does not threaten people.’ And again, I’m sure the relatives of Steve Biko and Dulcie September and David Webster and Anton Lubowski would want me to ask you. When did you change your mind? When did you stop doing that? // Well firstly, in some of the instances you ... And then there was silence. Somebody shouted that it was over. In my head I heard all the time, and even now, although this time I’m also asking the same question ‘who sold me to the police, who sold me to the police?’ Anton died with that question on his mouth. ... job proved too much for the combined efforts of two gangsters, Van Zyl and Ferdi Barnard and they gave up. This week Van Zyl agreed with prosecutor Anton Ackermann’s observation that South Africa was fortunate the CCB was so bad at its job. And then he walked back to his new respectable life. ... Pretoria Attorney, Julian Knight has researched the Lubowski case intensively. // If Magnus Malan is correct in saying that Anton Lubowski was a paid informer why then were payments made to him made in such a way as to directly implicate him? // These cheques were made out by an intermediary, ... ... for a new career on the other side of the law. Between them they have been implicated in murdering or trying to murder at least 6 people including Anton Lubowski and David Webster who both died and Dullah Omar who survived plans to shoot and poison him. Staal Burger, Callas Botha and Slang van ... ... the information those files contain solve the many mysteries that remain. Will we ever know who killed Robert Smit, who shot down Dulcie September, Anton Lubowski or Ric Turner? Will we learn about the forces responsible for the brutal train violence that claimed hundreds of lives, or township ... // I heard all the time. And even now, although this time I’m also asking the same question, who sold me to the police, who sold me to the police? Anton died with that question on his ... ... from Nortje and De Kock, were Steve Bosch, Snor Vermeulen, and an unknown number of askaris. There were also policemen from Ladybrand: Joe Coetzer, Anton Adamson, Douw Willemse. Nortje says Coetzer, Adamson and the police agent murdered Leon and his wife. All the policemen involved received the ... ... gathering centre in a covert way. It was always denied that any of these individuals had links with the SADF and is still denied. But Jan Anton Nieuwoudt sued the SADF for compensation and his court records spell out that all the time he was a member of the SADF and this was an ... kill people, the National Party does not threaten people and again I’m sure the relatives of Steve Biko and Dulcie September and David Webster and Anton Lubowski would want me to ask you, when did you change your mind, when did you stop doing that? // Well firstly, in some of the instances you ... ... a thorn in the flesh of the ruling South African establishment because he joined SWAPO; he was also a key figure in SWAPO’s election campaign. Anton Lubowski became CCB Region Six’s first ... … Asking the same question, who sold me to the police? Who sold me to the police? Anton died with that question on his mouth. Did you claim in Parliament in relation to this matter and did you reveal to Parliament that mister Anton Lubowski was a paid agent of Military Intelligence and did you then on that basis indicate that for that reason General Witkop Badenhorst would not have authorised any action against him? // ... ... and Griffiths Mxenge had been brought to book, but that is not true of those who assassinated Victoria Mxenge, Dulcie September, David Webster and Anton Lubowski. But at least in the case of David Webster someone has been criminally charged with murder. The charges against Ferdi Barnard did not ... |