Donald Card

Donald Card (born 1928) is a former security policeman in South Africa. Card was present in Duncan Village in 1953 on the day Elsie Quinlan, a Dominican, nun was brutally killed. In the aftermath of Quinlan's killing, the police retaliated by killing up to 200 people involved in the rioting that led to Quinlan's death.[1] 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.[2]

References

Citations
  1. Ntsebeza 1993, p. 46.
  2. Bank & Bank 2013.

Sources
  • Bank, Leslie J.; Bank, Andrew (2013), Untangling the Lion's Tale: Violent masculinity and the ethics of biography in the 'Curious' case of the apartheid-era policeman Donald Card, University of the Western Cape, doi:10.1080/03057070.2013.768792, hdl:10566/2965
  • Ntsebeza, Lungisile (1993). Youth in urban African townships, 1945-1992 : a case study of the East London townships (Master's). UKZN. hdl:10413/6351.
  • Thomas, Cornelius (2005). "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. 11 (50). hdl:0394/5313.
  • Thomas, Cornelius (2007). Tangling the lions tale:Donald Card, from Aparthied era cop to crusader for justice. East London, South Africa: Donald Card. ISBN 9780620390811 – via Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
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