(G. News): 'World's oldest Woman' Dies aged 128 in South Africa

 

A south African woman said to be the world's oldest person has died in at the age of 128. Mother-of-seven Johanna Mazibuko, died in her Jouberton, Northwest Province, home on March 3, and would have been 129 in May, local reports said.

Those close to her said she had ID documents that prove she was born on May 11, 1894, and grew up on a maize farm. She never went to school and could not read or write, they said.

Speaking to News24, her caregiver and daughter-in-law Thandiwe Wesinyana said Mazibuko may have died from a stroke.

Mazibuko told the publication on her 128th birthday: 'I am amazed at why I am still here after so many years. Why am I still here? People around me have been dying.

“When will I die? What's the point of being alive? The world has tired me because I am just sitting here doing nothing,” she said.

Mazibuko will be buried on Saturday in Jouberton, Klerksdorp. She was one of 12 sibilings of which three younger ones are still alive.

Mazibuko survived both World Wars as well as two global pandemics (Covid-19 and the Spanish Flu). She was alive during Queen Victoria's rein in Britain, the Wright brother's first flight and the first Russian revolution.

Officially, the world's oldest person is a San Francisco-born woman, aged 115. She was handed the title after the death of French nun Sister André, 118, earlier in 2023.

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