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A film about the late South African political activist, Dulcie September, " Murder In Paris", is on the entertainment menu of the country's 23rd annual Encounters International Documentary Film Festival.
Dulcie September was a South African anti-apartheid political activist. She was assassinated in Paris on the 29th of March 1988. The 2021 documentary, Murder in Paris, explores the life and assassination of Dulcie September. We caught up with the director Enver Samuel to talk about the film and his passion for documentary filmmaking.
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Reckoning with oppressive pasts has been a line of enquiry, and an institutional mandate, for the Nelson Mandela Foundation over more than fifteen years now. The underlying premise has been that if pasts are not reckoned with by a society, then those pasts will certainly reckon with society.
This was one of the contexts to the virtual dialogue
September Amnesia, hosted by the Foundation on Monday 26 April. Facilitated by Kneo Mokgopa and framed as an intergenerational conversation, not surprisingly the question of reckoning became almost a sub-text to the discussion. Why does South Africa still not know who ordered the assassination of African National Congress representative in Paris, Dulcie September, in 1988? Why are archives related to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s investigation of her murder still not accessible to the public? Why only now is the French government considering reopening the official investigation into her murder?
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