On the 11 December 1979 Alex Moumbaris and two other prisoners, Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, made a daring escape from Pretoria Central Prison. After a dangerous and exhausting journey they eventually arrived in Lusaka, where they were received by OR Tambo, and for the first time appeared publicly about their escape during a press conference on the 14 January 1980.

Including press statement from Lusaka, 2 January 1980; press reports with their first photographs taken together with ANC President Oliver Tambo in Lusaka; exclusive interview with the Tanzania News Agency, 14 January 1980; press statement by French Communist Youth; typescript with the timeline of events after the escape, following newspaper reporting.

Including: first press reports about the escape; their demand for PoW status for political prisoners in South Africa; poster of a public rally for their arrival in London; trial of prison warder related to the escape; naming of a street in the French town of Amiens after Solomon Mahlangu; bombing of the French anti-apartheid headquarters in Paris; trial of 3 men who aided escaped prisoners; other news clips relating to Alex Moumbaris after his escape.

Including speech on the occasion of an event for solidarity with political prisoners in South Africa, under the aegis of Unesco, 10 October 1980; newspaper clips.

Alex Moumbaris started working for the African National Congress (ANC) in Paris immediately after his release. He established the first office at 42 Rue Rochechouart, for which the French Communist Party paid the rent and other bills. During Dulcie September's tenure the office was moved around 1985 to 28 Rue des Petites-Écuries "for security reasons", where she was assassinated in 1988. The expenses for the second office were paid indirectly by the Socialist Party, through the Centre for Research Information Action in Africa (CRIAA) and more precisely Jean-Bernard Curial (information provided by Alex Moumbaris).

Letters and telefaxes regarding his activities since arrival in Paris, setting up an office space, engage with anti-Apartheid movements, but also raise concern about lack of support and financial worries to keep up his work, mainly written to Joe Jele and Sizakele Sigxashe, ANC International Office in Lusaka; Solly Smith, ANC Office in London. Also included correspondence with the 'Comite Catholique contre la Faim et pour le Development' regarding fundraising for the establishment of an ANC office in Paris, 1980; as well as for funding received for an Information Campaign on South Africa, in Paris, and receipts signed by Alex Moumbaris and Godfrey Motsepe, 1981.

Contracts, bills, rent receipts, telephone bills (and summons), during the establishment of an ANC office in Paris.

At the end of 1983 Dulcie September was appointed ANC Chief Representative in France, Switzerland and Luxembourg. She was assassinated on the 29 March 1988.

Including few correspondence between Alex Moumbaris and Dulcie September; receipt books kept by Dulcie September (sealed due to mould); copies of a blue notebook with notes by Dulcie September for a speech for Walter Sisulu's 75. birthday (original sealed due to mould); French newspaper issue L'Eveil depicting Dulcie September and Alex Moumbaris at an anti-Apartheid event, 1986; issue of ANC Sechaba with Obituary for Dulcie September, May 1988