Lubowski attended Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch, South Africa. He then did a year of military training with the South African Defence Force in Pretoria, before attending Stellenbosch University for law and the University of Cape Town for a Bachelor of Laws.
He joined SWAPO officially in 1984. He initiated the NAMLAW Project, a legal research organisation to draft legislation for Namibia after independence. As a SWAPO activist he was detained six times by the South African authorities.
In 1989 he became Deputy Secretary for Finance and Administration in the SWAPO Election Directorate.
He was murdered in front of his home in Windhoek, presumably by a South African hit squad (probably by an Irish mercenary Donald Acheson) - not to be confused with Sir Donald Acheson Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire - during the independence election campaign on 12 September 1989. In the evening of 12 September 1989, Lubowski was shot by a group of assailants in front of his house in Sanderburg Street in central Windhoek.
He was hit by several shots from an Alaska-47 automatic rifle and died from a bullet wound to his head The life of Anton Lubowski is described in a book written by his widow Gabrielle Lubowski in her self-published novel On Solid Ground.
Lubowski"s assassination was processed in Bernhard Jaumann"s novel The Hour of the Jackal.
His family created an education based charity known as the Anton Lubowski Educational Trust, which is a registered NPO 064-942 and PBO 930-035-321. More details on the organisation can be found on their WEBSITE.
He was a member of the South West Africa People"s Organization (SWAPO) In 1989 he was assassinated by operatives of South Africa’s Civil Cooperation Bureau. He defended political prisoners and got involved with the Namibian trade union movement in the capacity of Secretary of Finance and Administration of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW). Before 1989 he had no official party position but he made frequently public statements on behalf of SWAPO.
As an advocate he was a member of the Windhoek Bar. Shortly before his death he became a member of the SWAPO Central Committee.
