Fredie Blom had recently celebrated her birthday. According to his documents he was born in 1904. His family had been exterminated by the Spanish. The record, however, is not official
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He had recently celebrated his 116th birthday, Fredie Blom, South African, the oldest man in the world according to his ID but not according to the Guinness World Record, since there is no exact information about his birth, which it would have occurred in May 1904 in the then colony of the Eastern Cape Province.
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Survived two world wars and apartheid
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His family was wiped out entirely by the Spanish in 1918 when he was only 14 years old. But he, black, survived two world wars and apartheid, working as a construction worker until he was 80. Recently interviewed, he did not confess any secrets that could explain its longevity, except that “there is a Man up there who has all the power. I have nothing, I can fall at any moment but He supports me”.
A lifelong smoker, he had recently stopped drinking
For the rest, notes the BBC, Fredie Blom has smoked all his life and stopped drinking alcohol only a few years ago. “Until a week ago, his grandfather was still cutting wood,” says a grandson, Andre Naidoo.
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