Donald Card Explained

Honorific Prefix:	The Honourable
Donald Card
Birth Date:	1928 7, df=y
Birth Place:	Port St Johns, Pondoland, Union of South Africa
Death Place:	East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Nationality:	South African citizenship
Occupation:	Politician Apartheid-era Statesman

Donald Card (14 July 1928 – 12 July 2022) was a South African security constable and politician who was the Mayor of East London, South Africa.^[1]

Biography

Card was born on 14 July 1928 in Port St Johns, Pondoland, Union of South Africa, into a wealthy family. He was present in Duncan Village in 1953 on the day Elsie Quinlan, a Dominican nun, was brutally killed. In the aftermath of the nun's killing, the police retaliated by killing up to 200 people involved in the rioting that led to Quinlan's death. He was also implicated in police brutality and torture in evidence given at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1997.

In 2004, a symbolic ceremony of reconciliation took place at the inauguration of the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory Project; Card handed back to Nelson Mandela 78 letters written by Mandela on Robben Island. These letters were previously unknown.

Card died after collapsing at a retirement home in East London, Eastern Cape on 12 July 2022 at the age of 93.^[2]

References

Sources

• • Master's. Ntsebeza. Lungisile. Youth in urban African townships, 1945–1992 : a case study of the East London townships. 10413/6351. 1993. UKZN.
• Thomas. Cornelius. Bloodier than black and white: liberation history seen through detective sergeant Donald Card's narrative of his investigations of Congo and Poqo activities, 1960–1965. New Contree. 2005 . 50 . 11. 0394/5313.
• Book: Thomas, Cornelius. Tangling the lions tale:Donald Card, from Aparthied era cop to crusader for justice. East London, South Africa. Donald Card. 9780620390811. Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory. 2007. 25 August 2021. 25 August 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210825063617/https://books.google.com/books?id=rPYoAQAAIAAJ. live.

External links

• The Donald Card collection of Nelson Mandela's letters from prison
• Mncedisi Mapela's evidence to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Notes and References

1. Web site: 14 May 1997 . FORMER EAST LONDON MAYOR DENIES ASSAULT ON TWO PAC MEN: TRC . 2022-07-13 . South African Press Association. . 3 March 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110303184559/http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1997/9705/s970514k.htm . live .
2. News: Hardman apartheid cop-turned pro-peace East London politician Donald Card dies. Donald Card, prolific letter writer, politician, apartheid-era policeman and mayor, husband, father and great-grandfather has died at 93. His son, Robin of White River, said Card finished his breakfast at the Kennersley Park retirement village on Tuesday, pushed in his chair, turned to friends and said: "Guys, I am not feeling well," collapsed and died.. Daily Dispatch. Mike. Loewe. 13 July 2022. 13 July 2022. subscription. 13 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220713183721/https://www.dispatchlive.co.za/news/2022-07-13-hardman-apartheid-cop-turned-pro-peace-east-london-politician-donald-card-dies/. live.