Dulcie September

Dulcie Evonne September was born on August 20, 1935, in Athlone, Cape Town. Working as a teacher, she joined the African Peoples' Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) and the Yu Chi Chan Club.

Arrested in 1963, September spent five years in Kroonstad women's prison under harsh solitary confinement, followed by five years of severe banning orders. Leaving South Africa on an exit permit in 1973, she worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund in London before being appointed ANC Chief Representative to France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg in 1986. While investigating clandestine French and European weapons sales to the apartheid military, she was shot dead outside her Paris office on March 29, 1988.