This website is the official website for Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa. Please take your time to read through this website, especially the biography section which is very detailed, and published in baba Credo’s own words. If you are interested in meeting him in Kuruman, Northern Cape, please see the meeting schedule.
Credo Mutwa Cultural Village
Type Museums: Ambiance Come as you are.
Address: Ntsane and Majoeng streets in Central Western Jabavu
Phone: 011 930 1813
Venue info: If you ever wondered about the role played by traditional culture within an urban environment. Then visit The Credo Mutwa Cultural Village which has a huge collection of sculptures and traditional buildings. The village offers an outdoor museum of African art, culture and folklore.
Entrance is FREE – Open: Daily 6am-6pm
My reason for putting this website together is to consolidate and compile all the information about Credo Mutwa I find from across the Internet into one place. I met baba Mutwa in April 2008 and have spoken to him every few months since 2003 on the telephone. After meeting him, his wife and fellow Sangoma, Sanusi Virginia Mutwa, gave me an autographed copy of their new book, Woman of Four Paths: The Strange Story of a Black Woman in South Africa.
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, born on 21 July 1921 in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is a Zulu Sangoma (traditional healer) and High Sanusi. He is well known and respected for his work in nature conservation, and as an author of ground breaking books on African mythology and spiritual beliefs. Some of his work has led to him being seen as an outcast by fellow Sangoma’s or traditional healers, and even the larger African community in South Africa.
Early life
His father was a widower with three surviving children when he met his mother. His father was a builder and a Christian and his mother was a young Zulu girl. Caught between Catholic missionaries on one hand, and a stubborn old Zulu warrior, Credo’s maternal grandfather, his parents had no choice but to separate. Credo Mutwa was born out of wedlock which caused a great scandal in the village and his mother was thrown out by her father. Later she was taken in by one of her aunts.
He was subsequently raised by his father’s brother and was taken to the South Coast of Natal, near the northern bank of the Umkumazi River. He did not attend school until he was 14 years old. In 1935 his father found a building job in the old Transvaal province and the whole family relocated to where he was building. In 1937 he experienced a great shock and trauma when he was seized and sodomized by a gang of mineworkers outside a mine compound. After this he was ill for a long time.
Where Christian doctors had failed, his grandfather, a man whom his father despised as a heathen and demon worshipper, helped him back to health. At this point Credo began to question many of the things about his people the missionaries would have them believe. “Were we Africans really a race of primitives who possessed no knowledge at all before the white man came to Africa?” he asked himself. His grandfather instilled in him the belief that his illness was a sacred sign that he was to become a shaman, a healer. He underwent initiation from one of his grandfather’s daughters, young sangoma named Myrna.
Quote: Credo Mutwa: “I wish to appeal to the world. First, I am not a quack or a charlatan or a sensationalist. I am an old man who has seen much. I wish the world to know that there is a faint ray of hope that emanates from South Africa.”
This section contains a short autobiography of Credo Mutwa. It was originally published on a website which does not exist any more. As far as I can tell this is true in the sense of his philosophy and his vision.
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hi guys you all talk nice about Baba Credo but no one has his contact details i think it will be good if we can all get his contact number for us who have problems to contact him please im tired of these Sangomas that are playing with people i need a real thing from Baba Credo please help while God is still keeping him in this earth.
thokoza baba credo. i really your contact details so that you can help me through this confusion.
god bless you
ke a dumedisa ntate mutwa. i followed durin gyour days im north west/mafikeng when at some point you were lamenting they way the homeland leaders were not taking care of nature. how sad of them. in you i see the calabash of wisdom.pity some of us do not have a collection of your literature and daily updates on your wonderful activities. wew really need that. is there any foundation ya ntate/institute or something? although you are placed somewhere( i dont even know how do we ensure taht everybody benefits from your wealth of knowledge. maybe provincial structures could help keep the home fires burning. any suggestions of the literature about you and related stuff. From desparate.
I found this inpiring indeed. God bless credo for his work and relentless and uwavering strenght and spirit. I think he live somewhere i Kuruman. Regards and be all blessed
Humanity wont get another human as angelic as mutwa. Certainly has had alot of trouble with curious people.
I am not permitted to speak of his great knowledge. But when he is gone humanity would have suffered a very great loss. It upset’s me greatly to see uneducated peoplemake remark’s about him. When they know nothing about him.
Mkulu i will always love you forever.
Sir. Credo Mutwa, thank you oh so very kindly for being brave and putting this information together for us. I pray that you are blessed with good health, people who what to learn all that you know. I will do my part and pass this along to as many people who are ready (minds elevated enough to receive and comprehend) to receive the knowledge.
I started to research more about about Credo Mutwa after reading this website: http://www.ayahuascaceremony.com and meeting an amazing African Healer called Rain Queen Mother, who literally saved my life.
I wish the best of health to this esteemed Elder.
hi,
pls help me get in contact with the old man as my life is spiraling out of control and im being told that i need to be a traditional healer and yet there are some unanswered questions. Pls help
hi,
I also need contact details for Baba Credo Muthwa.I have a terrible pain in my right leg, went to fortune tellers and they told me that it is my grandmother who wants me to be a Sangoma. Guys this is so frustrating…. Please Credo help me, i need to get some clarity.
If anyone has his contact details please post it on this site.
Love you all,
Dear Zinhle you can join us on the next trip to meet baba Credo at the end of May.
Hi all
Can someone please provide me with contact details to order vulindaba medicine.
Dear Lenka you can order something even better called “Umlingo WamaNgcolosi” from Tine van der Maas in Johannesburg. Please give her a direct call on 071 515 8643. After reading this medical report on Sutherlandia, I do not recommend it at all.
Sanibonani. Ngidinga ulwazi mayelana nendaba yesibongo. My Parents never got mkarried, both of them have passed away, I grew up using my mother’s surname together with my sister. I’m awarethat there was a traditional ceremony celebrated for me and my sister called (imbeleko)apparantly to introduce us to my father’s family and ancerstor, but still we continued to use my mothes surname, later on my younger broter was born, and he used my Father’s surname. Now i am preparing to get married, and confused with the issue of the surname, whether i should continue to use my mother’ssurname or use my father’s surname. what does culture dictate, does it affect my ancestors, will it affect my children. Can someone offer me sound advice, and share some clarity on this matter???
Sanibonani. Ngidinga ulwazi mayelana nendaba yesibongo. My Parents never got mkarried, both of them have passed away, I grew up using my mother’s surname together with my sister. I’m awarethat there was a traditional ceremony celebrated for me and my sister called (imbeleko)apparantly to introduce us to my father’s family and ancerstor, but still we continued to use my mothes surname, later on my younger broter was born, and he used my Father’s surname. Now i am preparing to get married, and confused with the issue of the surname, whether i should continue to use my mother’ssurname or use my father’s surname. what does culture dictate, does it affect my ancestors, will it affect my children. Can someone offer me sound advice, and share some clarity on this matter???
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You can feel credos truth deep within the soul there are many in our world who would do anything to keep all truths hidden. May he be blessed for carrying the truth and trying to enlighten a world where money power and every evil vice has taken over the thought processes of man. The evil powers are trying to gain total control over everyting in the world. The light will win out and evil darkness will not prevail. There are light bearers who are willing to fight and win..
Dear Credo Mutwa, thankyou for sharing your life’s experience into the hidden world and history history of Africa, your knowledge has been learned and earned the hard way.
With respect and love to you, l hope you do get better too.
That is = hidden history, l always stuff up a word or two in a comment, sorry.
Sir, I would like very much to meet you. Your knowledge is amazing and I would love a chance to hear you speak in person. I wish you a speedy recovery so you can continue your important work.
I am a white South African,and i like millions of other white South Africans,have nothing but love and utter respect for Credo Mutwa.I cannot understand how some people in other countries can come to the conclusion that white South Africans do not love and respect our treasure Credo Mutwa.I hope you get out of hospital soon and my love thoughts and spirit are with you allways.
Gary.
What hapend to the coment i pasted on 19 may 2011
It was only approved today Gary. See below and let me know.
Thanks you for the book; I truly hope Mutawas activities and books will help many white people, often too arrogant to bother, for a better understandig of the black people – I wish you the very best and congratulate you
I just want to thank Mister Credo Mutwa for his wisdom and wonderful revelation of the hidden mysteries of our world. A beautiful peaceful and wise aura surrounds this man.
To all the people that dont believe what David Icke says about uderground sacrifices,please read national geographic february 2011 page 104. If you do not have a copy,you can easily get a back copy from any reputable book shop.I asure you it is real and horyfying.The walls consist of sculls and other bones under paris.
Best wishes, dear Credo Mutwa,
and thanks for all you did, to awake the human race.
Time is now !
Michael
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