One of the oldest women in the world Johanna Mazimbuko died at the late age of 128 years old. The late Johanna has survived world war I and II together with two global pandemics the Spanish flu and Corona Virus.
Johanna Mazimbuko was born in South Africa in the year 1894, her birthplace was Ottosdal and she lived in Jouberton, South Africa.
The late Johanna said she did not expect to live such a long life. She was recognized worldwide after she proved that she is indeed among the oldest people to live.
According to the Daily Mail Johanna Mazimbuko died on march 3rd 2023 due to a stroke. She did not quite understand why she was still alive. Johanna questioned her existence because all her peers and people around her had passed away except her.
She expressed that she is ready to leave the world and that when she is still alive she is doing nothing productive.
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“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,” Johanna Mazimbuko said.
Johanna Mazimbuko has been living an isolated life and did not know any political or historical events such as the reign of apartheid in South Africa and the late political hero Nelson Mandela’s fight for Independence and peace in South Africa.
Johanna Mazimbuko has Seven children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Johanna Mazimbuko’s daughter-in-law Thandiwe Wesinyana expressed that the whole community has lost a mother as Johanna Mazimbuko was a mother to the community.
“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.” Thandiwe Wesinyana told News 24.
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