{"id":45766,"date":"2016-03-29T13:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T11:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/45766\/on-this-day-in-history-ancs-dulcie-september-was-assassinated-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2016-03-29T13:44:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T11:44:15","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-ancs-dulcie-september-was-assassinated-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/uncategorized\/2016\/03\/29\/on-this-day-in-history-ancs-dulcie-september-was-assassinated-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in history: ANC&#8217;s Dulcie September was assassinated in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the morning of Tuesday, 29 March 1988, ANC anti-apartheid activist and representative in France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, Dulcie September, was assassinated outside the ANC&#8217;s Paris office at 28 Rue des Petites-Ecuries, as she was opening the office after collecting the mail.<\/p>\n<p>Before her assassination, September had been investigating weapons deals between France and South Africa. Supposedly, this trafficking included nuclear materials.<\/p>\n<p>Sergeant-Major Joseph Klue of the South African Defence Force became a possible suspect and the French were accused of complicity in the incident.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/wgCihPET4So' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><strong>September by\u00a0Jean Michel Jarre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jean Michel Jarre composed a song for his 1988 <em>Revolutions<\/em> album named <em>September<\/em>, dedicated to Dulcie. The song was performed at his Destination Docklands concert at London&#8217;s\u00a0Royal Victoria Dock\u00a0in October 1988.<\/p>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/Tf1A_7B49xE' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She was shot five times from behind with a 22 calibre silenced rifle.\u00a0She was 52 years old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":45767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2704,2681],"tags":[3899,3900,3901,3902,3903],"class_list":["post-45766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-anc-anti-apartheid-activist","tag-dulcie-september-assassinated","tag-jean-michel-jarre","tag-on-this-day-in-history","tag-paris"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["ANC anti-apartheid activist","Dulcie September assassinated","Jean Michel Jarre","on this day in history","Paris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}