South Africa’s oldest man, and unofficially the oldest man in the world, died on Saturday morning. https://t.co/kBb5jl1OCw — Sibongile Mafu (@sboshmafu) August 22, 2020Naidoo described how Blom had survived the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918. He had to stay in the mountains and watch as his whole family died. According to Guinness World Records, the oldest living man ever is Japan’s Jiroemon Kimura, who died aged 116 years and 54 days. The world’s oldest living man is the UK’s Bob Weighton, aged 112 according to Guinness World Records.

Source: News 24 August 22, 2020 11:03 UTC