Credo: "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.
				
				It is a plant which is almost on the point of extinction, a 
				plant called ’Suderlandia Fructosate’. This plant 
				works miracles on people who have the terrible disease called Aids. And it is so miraculous that the miracles are 
				seen within a week or a fortnight. A person, who was lying down 
				on the point of death, when given this plant, rises and has much 
				energy and is free of depression and has a good appetite. And I 
				feel that as a nation as a matter of world emergency because the 
				big scientists have not produced a viable safe treatment for 
				aids. I say that this plant should be planted by all caring 
				governments, by all caring organizations and that it should be 
				given to human beings free of charge."
				
				Steve: "Absolutely. You know what I think is important 
				though Credo, that people understand what to do with the 
				plant."
				
				Credo: "They don’t do nothing sir, you are going to laugh 
				about this. You plant the plant okay, but then you take the 
				little leaves from it and you put them in a tea cup and you pour 
				much boiling water on it. And then you let the cup stand there, 
				like tea you know, and you just drink, the patient just drinks."
				
				Steve: "The leaves and the red flower?"
				
				Credo: "Yah."
				
				Steve: "Mix them together? Do you need to dry them 
				first?"
				
				Credo: "No you can take them straight from the garden, 
				because if you dry them too much they somehow loose some of 
				their good spirit. Now this is all you do. Now, there are 
				good doctors I’m working with who are making pills out of this 
				medicine. But you know sir, I feel we are faced with a national 
				emergency, a world emergency.
				
				You know sir, what I say is this. I can’t cure the people of 
				Africa without curing the people of the 
				Caribbean, because Aids is running around 
				the world. If I cure the people here and they get better, more 
				Aids will come in and eat the same people whom I tried to cure. 
				So the whole world must be cured. Look, can we say this? Nobody 
				will arrest us or anything?"
				
				Steve: "Well yes, I mean it’s not against the law to say 
				this, it’s in our rights to speak."
				
				Credo: Thank you sir. I will tell you why. Originally the 
				plant of ’Suderlandia’ was all over South 
				Africa. And I will tell you what used to happen. There 
				was a funny little grayish brown bird, which used to feed 
				on ’Suderlandia’s and this bird was very edible. 
				And starving people used to hit it with katties 
				(slingshots) and kill it. Now the bird is gone almost. And 
				now... so the land here is difficult to cultivate.
				
				Steve: The seeds are not being spread.
				
				Credo: "Yah, yah. What is happening is you need to take a 
				fine sandpaper and sandpaper each little seed. The seeds are 
				very tiny, tinier than grape seeds. And you sandpaper each seed 
				and you plant it in a small blompot (flower pot). And you 
				allow it to grow until it is about maybe four inches, three 
				inches high. Then you take it and you plant it in the big 
				veld (grassland). You can make a big garden, maybe twenty 
				acres or so and you plant there. They just grow. There are 
				farmers who have already planted them but they are too few. This 
				is a world emergency and we must not be selfish.
				
				In the last few years or so there has been many claims made by 
				people about plants and herbs, which they say are beneficial in 
				the fight against aids. Some of these claims have proven to be 
				false and at best have proven to be exaggerations. But in 
				South Africa there is plan, which is on the brink of 
				extinction. This plant is called by white people in English ’Suderlandia 
				Fructosate’. This plant is also called by the Afrikaans 
				people ’kankerbos’, which means cancer bush 
				or ’kalkoenbos’, which means turkey bush. 
				Now this plant was known in South Africa and other 
				parts of Sub-Saharan Africa for thousands of years. It 
				was an anti-depressant, it was appetite booster, 
				it was also and still is a dramatic booster of the human 
				immune system.
				
				For many years African people and Xhoi-xhoi people 
				and Xhoi-san people as well as Bantu 
				people used this plant in the fight against cancer, and 
				it was very effective there, and it still is. And they used it 
				also in the fight against diseases like tuberculosis 
				before there was streptomycin and other drugs to fight 
				tuberculosis. In the old days when ordinary venereal disease 
				like gonorrhea, syphilis and others were as 
				incurable as Aids is today, our people used this 
				plant to fight those diseases. If they had not had this plant, 
				the black people of Southern Africa would have been 
				destroyed just as the Australian Aborigines were 
				destroyed, and other races of aboriginal people in other parts 
				of the world were brought to extinction by diseases brought 
				in from Europe.
				
				Now, we have found... me and a group of doctors, doctors like Dr
				Nigel Gerica , Dr Ben van Wyk, Dr Albreght,
				Dr Mayeng. We looked at this plant and we found that it 
				was having dramatic impact in creating a better quality of life. 
				People with full-blown aids, people who had been 
				sent home to die. Not only did we, the five of us, use the plant 
				to help many people to a better quality of life within the space 
				of a month or a fortnight. There is a lady in a hospital in 
				Zululand, a white lady who has saved many, many 
				people who have been condemned to die of Aids in 
				this hospital. Then I also have my student, Virginia Ratele, 
				who has saved many people who were condemned to die of 
				aids. She has done this in her tribal village near the 
				town of Kuruman.
				
				There is something very strange that is happening now. I and 
				Virginia, who live amongst the mountains of the Magaliesberg, are being terrorized and threatened by 
				white men who are very professional in the way they do this. 
				They are able to neutralize the security lights and the alarms 
				with which the house in which we live are fitted. They are able 
				to break in through the doors even though we put devices in the 
				keyholes to stop people from doing so. These are not your run of 
				the mill thieves; they are professional men who know exactly 
				what they are doing.
				
				I feel that all of human kind is facing an emergency, and that 
				all greed and selfishness should be swept away, and this plant 
				should be made available to nations in the world. The way the 
				plant grows, I know it can grow in Nazareth, in the 
				United States, India and in China and in other 
				places where Aids is rampant. I do not claim that 
				this plant, dramatic as the results are is the cure for 
				Aids. I say it is a stopgap, which must be used by all 
				human kind in order to halt the disease of Aids. 
				
				
				 
				
				Until such a time as the pharmaceutical scientists can come up 
				with a real cure, a cure which is not at all toxic. I say that 
				this plant ’Suderlandia’ is not at all toxic. It 
				was even used by men such as President Paul Kruger of the 
				South African Republic of 1899 or thereabouts. And Paul 
				Kruger who used this plant lived to be a very old man, and 
				at one time Paul Kruger tried to send a consignment of ’Suderlandia’ 
				to save the life of a German Prince who had cancer of the 
				throat. But the ship that sailed from Mozambique was too 
				slow and arrived too late to save the prince.
				
				I say this that the United Nations should take 
				over the growing of this plant because we are faced with a world 
				emergency. We are faced with a disease which devastates all of 
				human kind without thinking. And we have got to stop Aids 
				not only in Africa but in other parts of the world 
				too. This disease has got to be stopped; it is not a natural 
				disease. I have dealt with Aids now for the last 
				five years and I now firmly believe, I Credo Mutwa, that
				Aids is a manmade disease. 
				
				 
				
				The way it 
				behaves in the human body is like no God created ailment ever 
				does. The disease shows a Satanic intelligence and I 
				appeal to all people throughout the world, that here in 
				South Africa is a faint ray of hope, which is however 
				b&b&b&b&b&.to be drowned by greed, by selfishness and cowardly 
				secretiveness. I say that this plant belongs to all humankind. 
				It belongs to the little children dying of Aids; 
				it belongs to the men and women who are ravaged by this ailment. 
				And I believe firmly that scientists will be able to create a 
				cure for Aids out of this plant. 
				
				 
				
				And I am making 
				this worldwide appeal because our government appears totally 
				indifferent to this offer, which I am making freely for all 
				humanity. Our government does not seem to be able to take the 
				one step, to have this plant planted throughout South 
				Africa as a matter of national emergency.
				
				One ’Suderlandia plant’ is capable of treating 
				10 people, and we need plantations of this plant. And I say 
				that this plant should not be the plaything of greedy 
				businessmen. It should not be the plaything of thieving 
				pharmaceutical organizations that steal Africa’s 
				treasures and lock them up in computers and call them their 
				intellectual property. I say this that this plant belongs to all 
				the humankind, and that the greedy organizations leave it alone. 
				We do not need a disease like Aids to reduce the 
				population of the world. 
				
				 
				
				I am told that this disease was created 
				specifically to destroy Africa and I now believe this. After 
				more than five years of dealing with this disease. And I say 
				this. I will not allow Africa, a misunderstood and 
				misrepresented nation, a misunderstood and misrepresented 
				continent, to perish, to suit the designs of conspirators. I say 
				that Africa must live, I say that India must live,
				China must live, and even the United States 
				must live. There is hope, a little ray of hope, a green ray of 
				hope, emanating from South Africa, and I call on 
				all human fellow human beings to make it larger, to spread hope 
				throughout the world. 
				
				 
				
				I beg to remind all that there was once a 
				time malaria devastated whole communities throughout the middle 
				east, throughout Africa and elsewhere. And out of
				South America there appeared a ray of hope, which 
				grew, larger and larger. That ray of hope was called the bark of 
				the Cinchona tree, quinine. And quinine 
				saved thousands of lives, which would have otherwise been swept 
				into oblivion.
				
				I say that people should not look upon me as a quack or a crank. 
				I am a researcher, self-taught. I am a writer of books, which 
				have sold worldwide. I am an inventor and a historian and a 
				traditional healer. And I say please, those who don’t believe me 
				come to South Africa and look at this plant 
				yourself. I say that no organization has the right to call this 
				plant it’s property, none. And I say let hope for humankind be 
				lighted from the southern tip of Africa to 
				overspread the whole planet.
				
				If Aids 
				
				were created to reduce the human 
				population, then it is a self-defeating 
				thing. The only way to make people breed less is to end war in 
				the world. When there is war shaking continents people breed 
				more. People breed out of fear. People breed out of 
				insecurity. You, the hypocrites of the United Nations, 
				you the liars within the walls of 
				
				the United Nations, 
				you, I challenge you to create a safer world and not a world 
				rotten with disease.
				
				Thank You.