‘World’s Oldest Woman’ Dies Aged 128 In South Africa From Suspected Stroke

Mother-of-seven According to local accounts, Johanna Mazibuko passed away on March 3 at her home in Jouberton, North West Province, and would have turned 129 in May.
Her family members said she possessed identification documents proving her birth date of May 11, 1894, and upbringing on a corn field. They said she never attended school and was illiterate.
Mazibuko’s caregiver and daughter-in-law Thandiwe Wesinyana said Mazibuko may have passed away from a stroke in an interview with News24.
On the occasion of her 128th birthday, Mazibuko expressed her amazement at her continued existence. I’m still here, why? All around me, people 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.She told News24: ‘We lived so well on the farms. There were no problems then. I can’t remember my childhood well but I do remember a locust infestation.

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There were ones we could catch and eat. It was like you are eating meat. We would just fry them and eat the like that just on their own.

‘I grew up healthy eating mostly fresh milk and wild spinach. Now I eat modern food. I am used to it but I miss the food I grew up on’.

She married an older widower Stawana Mazibuko, but cannot remember when. She said his first wife had died and he owned cows and she would make butter.

Johanna said: ‘He made sure I did not want for anything’.
They had 7 children, two of whom are still alive, and has over 50 grandchildren and great-grandchildren and is being mourned in South Africa.
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.

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Caregiver Thandiwe said she took her into hospital on February 14 and was treated for a stroke and was discharged on February 28.
She died at home three days later and will be buried on Saturday in Jouberton.

Thandiwe told News24: ‘We loved to pray together and spent most of our days drinking tea and talking. I don’t know who I’m going to have fun with anymore.

‘A wound has opened, my heart is sore, and I am shattered. The community is saddened. We’ve all lost a mother’ she said.
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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