Johanna Mazibuko, a woman believed to be the world’s oldest person, passed away at the age of 128 in South Africa on March 3, 2023, she said. News 24.
Johanna Mazibuko, a mother of seven, had documentation to support her claim that she was born on May 11, 1894. However, the documentation was never presented to the Guinness Book of Records people, or they never validated it.
Mazibuko grew up on a corn farm and could not read or write because she never attended school.
His daughter-in-law, Thandiwe Wesinyana, reported that he likely died of a stroke.
Johanna Mazibuko’s birthday would have been in May, and last year, when she had her last birthday, she expressed her astonishment at still being alive, questioning the meaning of being alive as she felt the world had disappeared and said she felt tired.
As evidenced by her identity documents, Johanna Mazibuko was born on May 11, 1894, so she lived in three centuries!
Johanna Mazibuko had 12 siblings. She married an elderly widower and had seven children. At the time of her death, she had over 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Her funeral was held on March 11, 2023 in Jouberton where she lived and she will be buried in Jouberton on Saturday where her family and her entire community will mourn her loss.
This South African grandmother survived two world wars, the Spanish flu, and even the coronavirus pandemic.
This year the one who is believed to be officially recognized as the world’s longest-lived woman died: the French nun Lucile Randon.
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Randon died aged 118 in January, in his sleep at his Toulon nursing home just months after vowing to break the world record for oldest person ever.
Guinness World Records officially recognized her status as the world’s oldest person in April 2022 when Japanese Kane Tanaka died.
At the time, Lucile, known as Sister Andre, said she wanted to outdo Jeanne Calment, another French woman, who died at 122 in 1997, but she couldn’t outdo him.
