TOUWSRIVIER, South Africa — A South African woman celebrated her 118th birthday Friday as one of the oldest people in the world with a small party at her care home.
Margaret Maritz was born on September 27, 1906, according to a copy of her identity card shown to journalists by a charity that helped to organize the party in Touws River, 180 kilometers northeast of Cape Town.The document has not been independently verified but if confirmed would make Maritz older than Japanese national Tomiko Itooka who was born on May 23, 1908 and is listed by the US-based Gerontology Research Group as currently the world's oldest living person.
She didn't drink, she didn't smoke,' a senior nurse at the home, Gregory Elroy Adams, told AFP.'We must be grateful,' said one of her daughters, Liza Daniels, 67. 'I don't know if I will reach that age one day. But for me it's a very, very big privilege to have a mother that reaches this age.
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