at South Africa House in Trafalgar Square. Later she gave up her job as a teacher and joined the staff of the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. In 1976 she joined the African National Congress (ANC) where she worked in the ANC Women's League. In 1979, International Year of the Child (IYC), she was elected chairperson of the IYC Committee of the ANC Women's Section in London. At the end of 1983, September was appointed ANC Chief Representative in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Death On the morning of 28 March 1988, September was assassinated outside the ANC's Paris office at 28, Rue des Petites-Écuries, as she was opening the office after collecting the mail. She was shot five times in her head with a 22-calibre silenced rifle. She was 52 years old. Her death stoked a strong popular reaction in Paris where more than 20,000 gathered to mourn. Before her assassination, September had been investigating trafficking of weapons between France and South Africa. Supposedly, this trafficking included nuclear materials. On the day after her murder, Alfred Nzo commented: "If ever there was a soft target, Dulcie September was one." Legacy Arts and media Jean-Michel Jarre composed a song for his 1988 Revolutions album named "September", dedicated to September. The song was performed at his Destination Docklands concert at London's Royal Victoria Dock in October 1988. The conceptual artist Hans Haacke devoted his 1989 installation "One Day, The Lions of Dulcie September Will Spout Water in Jubilation" to her. The site-specific intervention that modified an existing but defunct fountain in front of the Grande halle de la Villette in Paris, was part of the exhibition Magiciens de la terre by Jean-Martin Hubert. Her short story "A Split Society – Fast Sounds on the Horizon" was included in the 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby. Cold Case: Revisiting Dulcie September is a play that pays tribute to Dulcie September. A book about her murder, Dulcie: Een Vrouw Die Haar Mond Moest Houden by Evelyn Groenink, was published in the Netherlands in 2001. A podcast about the murder of Dulcie September, They Killed Dulcie by Open Secrets and Sound Africa, was released in March 2019. The 2021 award winning documentary Murder in Paris explores the life and assassination of September, it was directed by Enver Samuel and edited by Nikki Comninos. Memorials and dedications A square in