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South Africa: How a Film Is Fighting the Erasure of South African Activist Dulcie September
The Conversation Africa, 17 August 2021
Film impact involves designing and implementing strategies to ensure a social justice film reaches the right audience so it has the best chance to bring about the desired change.… Read more »
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Africa: Extraordinary South African and African Films Come To Encounters
Encounters, 17 May 2021
From the mysterious assassination of a South African icon, to an animated documentary of one of Sea Point’s legendary figures, as well as activists, miners, circuses and… Read more »
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South Africa: 'Murder in Paris' Puts Fresh Focus On Assassination
New Frame, 24 March 2021
The killing of Dulcie September has remained shrouded in secrecy for decades, and though a new documentary about it does not reveal her killers, it might help piece together the… Read more »
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South Africa: They Killed Dulcie - Episode 1 - the Scene of the Crime
Daily Maverick, 28 March 2019
On 29 March 1988 five bullets ended the life of South African freedom fighter Dulcie September. She was imprisoned, driven into exile and by the 1980s she spearheaded the… Read more »
How a Film Is Fighting the Erasure of South African Activist
The killing of Dulcie September has remained shrouded in secrecy for decades, and though a new documentary about it does not reveal her killers, it might help piece together the puzzle. September's death sparked international outrage, particularly in France, where tens of thousands of people lined the streets of the capital for her funeral on 9 April 1988. Almost immediately following what would prove to be the most high-profile assassination of an ANC representative on foreign soil in the apartheid era, rumours began to circulate that it was the work of agents of the South African state.
A new documentary titled Murder in Paris tries to pull together many of the complicated and frustratingly inconclusive searches for a smoking gun in the mystery of who killed September, while also reminding audiences of who she was and where she came from.
Lawyers for the September family in France have already included Murder in Paris in evidence they submitted to the French government in February as part of a petition to reopen the investigation into her murder.
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Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, who died on October 15, is being remembered for ... Read more »
Memorial plaque for Dulcie September - Dulcie was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. Born in Athlone, Western Cape, South Africa, she was assassinated in Paris, France.
