According to Johanna Mazibuko, she was born on May 11, 1894, in South Africa. She was raised in Ottosdal, South Africa, on a corn farm.
She has experienced British colonization, apartheid, and the Nelson Mandela era of democracy that began in 1994 when he was elected president of South Africa.
Stawana Mazibuko was the man she wed. After being married, Johanna earned a living by doing domestic work for the owners of farms.
She currently resides in Klerksdorp, a tiny town in South Africa’s North West region, southwest of Johannesburg.
Among her seven children, she has outlived five of them. Her son was a retired person who was 77 years old in 2013.
Johanna Mazibuko Job: What work did Johanna Mazibuko do?
She claims to have worked as a domestic helper for local farmers before getting married to Hans Mazibuko, an elderly widower. “At Ottosdal, we met. I milked the cows he owned, produced butter and sold it. I was employed by farmers’ homes when I got married to him.