Johanna Mazibuko may have remained the world’s oldest woman in 2023. She cited farm life as the secret to her longevity, and she also said that she ate fried locusts, which she ate without any garnish.
Yohanna Mazibuko, a mother of seven children from South Africa, who is called the oldest woman in the world, has died at the age of 128. It is reported by The Mirror.
The woman lived in three different centuries and died at her home in the North West Province of South Africa. According to her guardian and sister-in-law Tandive Vesignana, the woman may have died of a stroke.
However, the data that she is the oldest woman in the world has not been officially confirmed. US-born Maria Branjas Morera is considered the oldest person in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records. In January 2023, she turned 115 years old.
The oldest woman in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records
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The oldest woman in the world, according to the Guinness Book of Records
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And a resident of South Africa, Mazibuko, celebrated her 128th birthday on May 11 last year.
According to local mayor James Zolella, after numerous checks and searches to determine who is the oldest person in the world, no one could be found who would be older.
“We have her ID showing this,” the mayor says. He also added that he tried to ensure that the name of his compatriot appeared in the Guinness Book of Records in order to honor her memory in this way.
The woman was not literate, but in an interview with the local press she spoke about the possible secrets of her longevity.
“We lived so well on the farms. There were no problems,” the woman told reporters.
Johanna Mazibuko of South Africa may have been the oldest woman in the world in 2023
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She did not remember her childhood well, but she could still remember a case of a locust invasion on her farmland.
According to her, the children caught the locust and ate it, it tasted like meat. Caught locusts were fried and eaten, just like that, without a side dish.
Recall that the tallest woman in the world boarded an airplane for the first time, for which six seats had to be removed.
Focus previously reported that the oldest woman in China, who was 134 years old, had died. Until her last days, Alimikhan Seiti managed without assistants.
