GOING STRONG AT 113
NATIVE WOMAN’S CLAIM
DURBAN, July 6. One hundred and thirteen and still
i„ S ol.i-.ge claim i, by a native woman living in the, .-•y.ut-koo-Locaticm near Marit/.burg, Natal. She was-one. of the -‘finds’ of the census ' officer' in May. Herbage is assessed by heir' answers to- the officer s questions. Tlie old woman .walked five nines to wbefe the -census officer earned out his enumeration, and when asked her agi STS that when Chaka, the famous Zulu king, died (18231 she was old enough to understand what was mean bv the news of his* death. x , ’The census officer was doubtful o the accuracy of her claim, and the duet of the tribe was called upon to produce the oldest inhabitant of the location to give’evidence as-to* the woman s age. When there appeared an old man walking with the aid of sticks the o u woman laughed. “He was only a cmld when I was a married woman with Children,” she raid. From investigation of the* old-mail's age it was possible to compute it at 90, and he readily admitted" that when ho was a toddler, sue waa a young mother.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 12
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