Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa

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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa , also Vusamazulu Kredo Mutwa or Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa (* July 21, 1921 in what is now the Zululand district of the KwaZulu-Natal Province , South Africa ; † March 25, 2020 in Kuruman , Northern Cape Province ) was a Sangoma and Sanusi of the Zulu people in South Africa. He has published several books, some of which have also appeared in German.

Life

Mutwa's father was a Christian widower with three children when he met Mutwa's mother, a young Zulu girl. Mutwa's father and mother were not allowed to marry because their father, a traditionally minded old Zulu warrior, refused to consent to this connection with a Catholic. The illegitimate birth of the child Mutwa caused a scandal in the village, mother and child were chased from the grandfather's household. Later the child was adopted by one of his aunts.

Mutwa moved with the new family to the south of Natal near the Mkomazi River. He went to school for the first time when he was 13. The family moved to Transvaal in 1935 when his foster father found work as a construction worker there. Young Mutwa was captured and raped by a group of miners in 1937, which traumatized him and made him physically and mentally ill for a long time.

Mutwa was only cured with the help of his grandfather, who was despised by his father as a pagan and idolater. He convinced Mutwa that the time of his illness was a sign that he should become a spiritual healer. It was initiated by a young sangoma named Myrna, who was a daughter of his grandfather .

Publications

  • Indaba - My Children , Blue Crane Books, Johannesburg 1964, ISBN 0-8021-3604-4 .
  • Africa is My Witness , edited by Adrian S. Brink, Blue Crane Books, Johannesburg 1966, ISBN unknown
  • My people. The Writings of a Zulu Witch-Doctor , Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England 1969, ISBN 0-14-003210-X
    • German: My people. My africa. The incredible reports of a Zulu magician from South Africa , translated by Hanspeter Dürr, D-Druck-Spescha, St. Gallen 2004, ISBN 3-9521837-0-9 .
  • Let not my country die . United Publishers International, Pretoria? 1986, ISBN 0-620-10290-X .
  • Songs of the Stars , 2000, ISBN 1-886449-01-5 .
    • English: Zulu Shaman. Dreams, Prophecies, and Mysteries , Stephen Larsen (editor), foreword by Luisah Teish, 2nd edition; Destiny Books, Rochester, Vermont, USA 2003, ISBN 0-89281-129-3 .
      • German: Indaba. A Bantu medicine man tells the story of his people , excerpts from Indaba - My Children and My People , translated by Rainer Wegmershaus, Sabine Gerken, Dirk Johnsen, Goldmann, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-442-12015-2 .

DVD:

  • The Reptilian Agenda , interview with David Icke , UFO TV 2004, 3 DVD, 400 minutes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Credo Mutwa passes on at 98 years old" on citizen.co.za from March 25, 2020 (en.)
personal data
SURNAME Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mutwa, Vusamazulu Credo; Mutwa, Credo Vusa'mazulu; Sanusi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African author and Sangoma from the Zulu people
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Natal (Province) , Union of South Africa
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2020
Place of death Kuruman , Northern Cape Province