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This website is an unofficial source of information about Credo Mutwa, the most famous Zulu Sangoma in the world. It’s run by Ramon Thomas, a South African living in Johannesburg as a personal interest website (non-commercial). My reason for putting this website together is consolidate and compile all the information about Credo Mutwa I find from all corners of the Internet from time to time. I have never met him but we have spoken on the telephone many times. If there is anyone out there who can help arrange a face to face meeting with Credo Mutwa, please email contact me here.
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, 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.
Supreb topic. I do hope you get to meet Credo Mutwa face to face. In fact I am hoping (in my capacity as journalits) to seek his knowledge on the topic of Isaiah Shembe. Warm Regards from Durban
Yes,
I know about Credo, from davidicke.com
He is just an amazing person - from the intervwies, I’ve seen.
I hope he is keeping well, he must be over 90, now
Peace to All
I met Credo In 1991 I was sent by President Lucas Mangope to visit him. I have photos of him on my web site throwing the bones.
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Hello everybody,
I’m searching for help about two questions I’ve got.
In 1995 our spiritual healer from Croatia Mr. Ivica Prokic went to South Africa to search for one stone. Ivica was known by that time in Croatia as a spiritual healer and prophet. He went to the St.Lucia wetlands were he drowned in the Indian Ocean. In the video tape and the following book about this tragical event, the Croatians who were present, mention the saying of some South African people, that one “golden man” will come and bring them peace and health.
Who knows about that?
As well I would like to find out more about the lake St.Lucia, which is said to be a sacred place in the old days.
You can contact me by e-mail at abu_cam297@yahoo.com
I appreciate any kind of help in this matter.
Kindly
Cleo Dabelstein-Vuckovic
PS: the work of Mr Ivica Prokic is carried on by Braco, who’s healing power is today stronger than ever. You can find out more about him at heilungundhilfe.com. Unfortunately is the site in German.
This may be of interest to you!!
I read Indaba, My Children a few years ago with my sister after lending it from the Johannesburg public library. It was the most astonishing piece I have ever read. As a native who has never really been exposed to an indigenous historical record prior to reading it (history is always written by the victors), it left me completely bewildered, astonished, exhilarated and amazed - for the first time in my life i had a glimpse of Africa and my people in it as an inertactive commuinty rather than the xenophobes us South Africans have become infamous for.
The way in which he writes and encapsulates perfectly the African oral tradition was superb.
But prior to my reading that extraordinary volume, I came a cross the story of one Elizabeth Klarer (author of the book, Beyond the Light Barrier) - a Naval Intelligence Officer with the British Navy during WWII who, from the mid-50s, would have interactions with extraterrestrials and later have a child with an alien named Arkon from the solar system of Proxima Centauri.
I am, though, trying urgently to find Credo Mutwa in conjuction with a spirtual event to be held at UNISA on Sunday April 15. I ahve been trying to get a hold of him for the past two weeks. I would greatly appreciate help in this regard.
To: #5 cleo dabelstein-vuckovic
I am very much interested in your comment about “Mr. Ivica Prokic going to South Africa to search for one stone.” I live in Arizona and have many Hopi friends. You may find interesting their prophecy involving this stone… you can “search” for it in several ways… Hopi Sacred Tablets - Four Sacred Tablets. These or a combination of these will get you there. The four “stones” one of which went to Africa. Please look this information up. You will be hard pressed to find a picture of the stones but with enough searching you just may. Jae
To: cleo dabelstein-vuckovic
I am very much interested in your comment about “Mr. Ivica Prokic going to South Africa to search for one stone.” I live in Arizona and have many Hopi friends. You may find interesting their prophecy involving this stone… you can “search” for it in several ways… Hopi Sacred Tablets - Four Sacred Tablets. These or a combination of these will get you there. The four “stones” one of which went to Africa. Please look this information up. You will be hard pressed to find a picture of the stones but with enough searching you just may. Jae
Please tell Credo Mutwa that his poem, “A Pledge” is most beautiful.
You should have this poem up on his website.
“When kings are slain, and a pope is sent to hell,
when on a marble slab..a murdered princess lies,
a pale sacrifice to the beasts that rule the stars,
When out of the sky a stricken warplane falls,
trailing behind it long bridal veils of flame,
as missiles rage and red hot cannon roar…
When the battle tank briefly rules the blood drenched plains,
an iron tyrant on another’s stolen throne…
and it’s long cannon shatters the trembling skies with sound,
When nameless soldiers die friendless and unknown,
in Africa’s valleys or Kosovo’s snow-bound plains,
and whole tribes perish of hunger, disease and war…
When money is built into a jail to hold humankind
and love has died and compassion is unknown…
and lies become truth… and truth becomes a lie in a nameless city
When, in streets who have no love,
numberless children know hunger and abuse…
In countless homes where brute force rules supreme,
women have become blood-spattered slaves,
strangers to love, healing and respect,
strangers to the gentle and comforting word…
Whose guilty shoulders must bear
the heavy beam of crucifixion, all the ill we see?
Whose quivering back must bear the barbed scourge?
For all the evil and all the pain we have known friends
my Earth this on Freemasons are there Weavers of lies, brewers of lies,
who can strike at people with weapons of the night
against which no armour and no shield can prevail.
The written word is their poison-coated sword,
the tinkeling coin their cull and crop of maize…
Murderers of nations, Africa’s deadliest foes,
I curse your footsteps wherever you may go,
In whichever cave or dungheap you may hide,
I curse you all…may Heaven blast your eyes.
Tell Jabulon, the demon you call God,
Nomabhunu’s son defies him to his face,
I swear by the stones on my mother’s sacred grave,
that as from this moment, I will fight you to the end.
Against your kind, against your Masters too,
I will not cease to raise the Sword of Light.
For all you have done and all you have yet to do,
I will fight you to the ending of my days…..”
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Hi,
I’m a french journalist and I would like to do a report about Sangoma for french TV. Could you tell me how to contact one of them? Or could you help me to contact Credo Mutwa?
Thanks a lot
Mickael Penverne
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