In this file photo taken on May 8, 2020 Fredie Blom talks about his recollections as he celebrates his 116th birthday at his home in Delft, near Cape Town. One of South Africa's oldest citizens Fredie Blom, has died aged 116, his family said on August 22, 2020. Possibly one of the oldest men in the world, Blom was born 8 May 1904, in the rural town of Adelaide, tucked near the Great Winterberg mountain range of South Africa's Eastern Cape province.