Former students, academics and activists have described Professor Emeritus Edward “Eddie” Webster as a brilliant mind who was a friend to many.
Academics and activists have mourned the death of Professor Emeritus Edward Webster, who pioneered the sub-discipline of industrial sociology in South Africa.
Valodia said Webster was always striving to get the disenfranchised to organise and create a power shift. “Even well into his formal retirement, Prof Webster brought tireless enthusiasm, curiosity and energy to his work at the SCIS, and he will be very sorely missed by us all.” Shaku said Webster was an activist throughout his life. During his youth in the 1960s, he was a student activist in the National Union of South African Students.
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