Introduction
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.
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.