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Making it to 100 years is no easy feat, but keeping a positive outlook on life goes a long way, says centenarian Catharina Daniell from Vredekloof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of her 100th birthday on 26 July, the Vredekoof City Improvement District surprised her at her home with chocolates and a bouquet of flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although merely five foot in her socks the indelible Katy, as she is known by friends and family, stands tall, and if good cheer and a sense of humour is the secret to longevity, Katy has bundles of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTruth be spoken I don\u2019t know how I got here, but it helps to be positive. I think old age is either a reward for hard work or a punishment for sin, I\u2019m yet to work out which,\u201d she says during a chatty interview with TygerBurger.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katy and her husband moved to Cape Town in 1960 from Worcester, after having lived all over South Africa \u2013 from Krugersdorp to Klerksdorp \u2013 as her husband who worked for the bank was transferred around the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe lived everywhere in many provinces. We even lived on a farm in the Karoo for several years,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it is especially her childhood on the farm Goedgevondend near Potchefstroom in the old Transvaal she thinks of with much fondness and clarity as she gets older. She recalls these memories with a twinkle in her eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy short term memory is not that good and often times I have to count on my fingers, but these days I remember my childhood clearly. I remember how we played on the farm and I even remember my first hiding when I pulled a table cloth out from under a tea set and broke it. And then there was the old parrot at a house on the way to school we kids used to talk to. I once said to him \u2018Hello Polly\u2019 to which he responded \u2018Piss off!\u2019 We all roared with laughter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katy\u2019s husband passed away in 1995, and she remained living alone in her house in Vredekloof until just before the pandemic struck, still driving well into her eighties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe died just a few years short of our 50th wedding anniversary, and when I think back on our lives I can really say mine was a fruitful life. I was always going to be a housewife being able to stay at home as I did, to bring up my children.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together the couple had two children, three grandchildren, and one great grandchild that is now seven years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But life isn\u2019t always smooth and it is the bumps that help us find out who we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the age of 50 Katy survived a bad car accident on the road to Calvinia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She suffered broken legs, a broken back and had to undergo several operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was hard, but it was something I had to overcome, and I did, and still managed to drive until I was 85 years old. We all have our crinkles somewhere, but with a positive spirit I survived it; I am old, but I\u2019m not ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was very young when I decided that if there is something you can\u2019t do anything about, just forget about it and don\u2019t let it get you down,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katy says she owes her secret to longevity to a healthy lifestyle and a positive mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was never a drinker and I didn\u2019t smoke, my mother would have killed me anyway. But I was always positive, I think getting 100 years old has a lot to do with that, although I do moan a little bit sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI loved reading and embroidery when my eye still worked, but now I love doing block word puzzles and still beat my children in Scrabble. I am very happy and I feel safe.\u201d <\/ld><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On becoming 100, Katy says, \u201cI don\u2019t want a fuss. I want my family with me, that is what I need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her daughter Anthea von Molendorff describes her mom as a very independent woman who is caring of other people\u2019s welfare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think her kindness to other people has got her this far and her sense of humour off course. Someone in a shopping centre recently asked her how she managed to get so old to which she answered: \u2018Just don\u2019t die my child, just don\u2019t die.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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