alcohol and cigarettes during lockdown to try and stop booze-related hospital admissions.He previously told how the toughest part of his country's lockdown was being unable to fulfil his birthday wish and buy tobacco to roll his own cigarettes.Fredie was the sole survivor of his family after they were all wiped out by the 1918 Spanish Flu.He was described as 'unofficially' the world's oldest man by South African media, the MailOnline reports.
The oldest man in the world according to the Guinness World Records is Brit Bob Weighton, who died in May aged 112. Blom raised three children of his wife Jeanette as his own, and was a grandfather of five.In a tribute to Fredia, a spokesman for his family Andre Naidoo said: "Two weeks ago oupa.
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