Edward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party
Eddie Webster (82), sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, who died on 5 March 2024, lived a huge life, applying himself to many different arenas with great energy and insight. KARL VON HOLDT, Senior Researcher, Society Work and Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand His achievements are quite extraordinary. He was an intellectual, a teacher, a leader, an activist for social change, a builder of institutions, a rugby player and jogger, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party.…