REMEMBER DULCIE SEPTEMBER: 20 AUGUST 1935 – 29 MARCH 1988
Dulcie Evonne September was treacherously murdered on 29 March 1988, by a hired killer in the pay of the apartheid colonial regime.
Those who knew Dulcie will remember her as an always smiling, friendly, committed, almost impatient ANC (African National Congress) activist – a comrade who loved to see things done. This gentle, unassuming Dulcie, who never handled anything more deadly than a pen or a typewriter, was to be a victim of an unknown assassin who shot her five times with a .22 rifle as she was opening the ANC office in Paris after collecting the mail from the post office. For her, that fatal morning was just another working day. In a manner typical of the cowardly paid murderer, she was shot from behind with a silenced weapon.
Dulcie was descended from the Coloured community in the Western Cape. She grew up in Gleemoor, a section of Athlone, one of the suburbs of the city of Cape Town. It was there, in the region of our country that lies in the shadow of Table Mountain, rich in traditions of struggle that extend back as far as the 17th century, that she evolved her keen social conscience and political commitment to the struggle for national liberation, democracy and social justice.
In 1935, the year when Comrade Dulcie was born, serious developments were taking place internationally. The little place called Gleemoor must have seemed very far away from the sites of these momentous events. Yet it
