Brutal murder of a Nun in South Africa

Brutal murder of a Nun in South Africa
South Africa Cruel and Savage Murder

A cruel and savage murder took place on the morning of 10 November 1952, which focussed the attention of the world on South Africa for a number of days.

The Irish nun, sister Elsie Aidan Quinlan (37), a qualified medical doctor at the Dominican Mission in eats London, is the victim of a brutal deed. Sister Quinlan had been in South Africa for no less than 14 years when she got into her little black Morris car and headed out for the Peter Claver Mission, ‘n trunk full of food and clothes for the needy children there.

She is a well-known person in the community and hugely respected. When she encountered a mob of protesting, black youths, she was initially not concerned. There was no reason to expect them to harm her, she was on their side after all!

Without hesitation the mob, however, storms the little car, overturns it and sets it ablaze with sister Quinlan inside! As if this is not savage enough, they then produce a blunt breadknife and starts cutting pieces of flesh from her burning, writhing body, swallowing it whole “…to eat the white power!…”

Liberal politicians, the ANC, sympathizers of black terrorism in SA all blame the apartheid policy of the government for the deed. More than 5 decades later a monument is unveiled at the site of the murder. On the morning of 13 December 2012, ANC member Njabulo S Ndebele promises that such a thing will not happen again in the New South Africa. He continues to say:

“What we need so desperately at this time, is our future. The terrible end of Sister Quinlan’s life in the streets of Duncan Village, a life we are here to recall and reflect upon, will also remind us, perhaps cruelly, of the past that has already made us. In 1994, not only did we want to release ourselves from that past, we also did something else. We wanted to create our future. Through the memory of Sister Quinlan, the people of East London are telling every South African that they still intend to honour and attain the future we continue to desire.”

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Sister Mary Paule Tacke arrives in the Eastern Cape from the USA in 1950 as a young nun. She is a teacher, dedicated to providing relief and an education to underprivileged orphans. Mosiuoa Lekota is a pupil of hers. On the morning of Sunday 15 June 2014, one day before Youth Day, she gets behind the wheel of her little car and departs from the Tembelihle Orphanage on her mission of caretaking.

But a few hours later her little car is found near Qokolweni. It had been in an accident and is overturned. Sister Mary Paule’s wallet with cash inside, her keys and all other personal belongings are still in the car as well as a 9mm pistol and an unknown mobile phone. A few hours later her body is discovered in a stream near Tyara, 60km from Mthatha. She was strangled. There is no motif. Police wants to question two young, black males in connection with the murder and hijacking.

And we thought this would never happen in the New South Africa again?

Which consequently leads to a number of questions:

  • Why is the safety and security of senior citizens not a priority? In his State of the Nation Speech last night, president Zuma did not even bother to make reference to the vicious and brutal farms attacks and attacks on the aged. We can but think of the attack last Friday evening on the elderly Lemmer couple of Pretoria where the 81 year old mrs Jemima Lemmer was dragged around and burned with a hot clothes iron. Whether it be an elderly Afrikaner couple on a smallholding or an elderly nun in her little car, it is the responsibility of the state to protect them!
  • “Such a thing will not happen in the New South Africa again!” So, what then is the excuse for the senseless death of an 82year old nun? In 1952 the death of sister Quinlan was blamed on apartheid. What is the excuse for the murder of sister Mary Paule?
  • The barbaric viciousness and cannibalism evident in the death of sister Quinlan shocked the world. Is strangling of an 82 year old, helpless nun any less vicious? Is the burning of an 81 year old, frail woman with a red hot electric iron not barbaric? Did the arrival of “democracy” in South Africa, the dawn of opportunities and prosperity and the right to vote and civil rights proceed one single inch towards civilising the black South African? That is to be doubted.

The inevitable conclusion is that the black South African’s view on white support and help have not altered at all since 1952. And therefore it remains inconceivable to me that the white South African learned so little since the death of sister Quinlan. An integrated society such as the so-called New South Africa is simply no option.

To keep supporting parties such as the DA in the vain belief that a state of unity with a “rainbow nation” will secure a future for South Africa, is a decision which can only bear the bitter fruit of which sister Quinlan had to eat in 1952, which became the destiny of auntie Jemima Lemmer last Friday evening and which caused the broken, dishonoured body of sister Mary Paule to end up in ‘n dirty ditch like a discarded piece of rubbish.

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