Dulcie September was assassinated on 29 March 1998 in Paris. She was born in 1935 in Maitland. She attended Athlone High School and completed her Teacher's Diploma at the Wesley Training School in Salt River in 1955. #AColouredTapestry (1/6) 
Together with Neville Alexander, Fikile Bam, Marcus Solomon, and others, she formed a study group known as the Yu Chi Chan Club. Yu Chi Chan Club was disbanded at the end of 1962, to be replaced by the National Liberation Front (NLF). (2/6)
In 1963, Dulcie was arrested and detained without trial. She was sentenced to five years imprisonment, during which time she endured severe physical and psychological abuse. (3/6)
In April 1969, she was issued with a 5-year banning order, prohibiting her from engaging in political activity and from practising her profession. Dulcie left South Africa on 19 December 1973. (4/6)
In Britain, she established friendships with exiles from Cape Town, the majority of whom were African National Congress (ANC) members. At the end of 1983, Dulcie was appointed ANC Chief Representative in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. (5/6)
On the morning of 28 March 1988, September was assassinated outside the ANC's Paris office. She was shot five times in her head. She was the highest-ranking ANC official ever to be killed outside of Southern Africa. (6/6)
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