Dulcie September: Viciously Murdered in Paris
“If ever there was a soft target, Dulcie September was one.” – Alfred Nzo, 30 March 1988 –
On 29 March 1988, Dulcie Evonne September, a prominent revolutionary cadre and Chief Representative of the African National Congress (ANC) in France, was assassinated in Paris. Dulcie, who was 52 years old at the time, and was killed around 09:45 in the morning, while she was opening the ANC office on Rue des Petites-Écuries in Paris, shortly after collecting the mail. She was shot five times at close range with a .22 calibre silenced rifle outside her office, likely executed due to her investigation into illegal arms dealings between France and South Africa. Her murder remains officially unsolved, with suspected involvement from apartheid South African hitmen and the French secret service.
It was widely believed that she was targeted because of her investigation into illegal arms trafficking and nuclear cooperation between the South African apartheid regime and France, particularly clandestine weapon shipments between South African arms company Armscor and several French arms entities, which violated international embargos. Suspicions remain that the apartheid regime’s hitmen were involved, potentially with the cooperation of the French secret service, due to the nature of the arms dealings.
Dulcie September was born on 30 August 1935 in Athlone, a small township of Cape Town, which was located on the outskirts of whi
