So, can you tell me how old are you today?
I'm 99.
Disgusting.
Next year I'll be a hundred.
But I won't be here, thank goodness.
I'm the past on, I hope.
I've got two tortoises.
I used to have five.
A lot of them have vanished.
I'm sure the people who do the mowing have stolen some.
What year were you born?
1916.
We had gramophones and records.
We would go to the country club every Saturday night.
There was a dance and then a dinner.
And we all dressed up in our lovely long dresses.
The men all had black tires and suits.
Not like they do now in jeans and any old thing that children go to.
World War II I knew more about because I was a nurse.
In a hospital, in a military hospital.
Ladies, why was the black sash formed in the first place?
I was very anti-apartheid.
And I used to stand with my black sash.
I used to boycott all the ministers.
When they came off an airplane we were there to sort of make them feel bad.
They had to run the gauntlet because there was a whole lot of them standing there.
When they came off the plane they'd have to go past this huge crowd of black sash women.
Yes, sort on the TV, men wandering around.
What was his name?
He just waddled around in his big suits.
Then they went back again.
What do they mean by app?
It's an application.
Oh yes, one can Google.
I never need to use to Google.
How did you meet Raymond, your first husband?
Raymond Favey.
He was a doctor.
He was rather tragic because he got lung cancer and he died quite young.
He was only 32.
And I had just that tiny baby who was Andrew.
There's nothing you could do.
I couldn't cope.
I just sort of swallowed it up, everything I felt.
I just tried to cover it up.
In fact, I got the sort of nickname of the Mary Widow when I was in Marisburg
because I tried to cover it up and not show what I felt.
And I just had to make a laugh and go on.
It was very difficult. It was a very difficult time.
And then I met Doc.
He was a nice chap.
And we were married about 40 years, I think.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday to you.
I've lived a very dull life.
Not like some people who are doing things all the time.
I think you've done some cool things.
You're a lieutenant in World War II.
You were part of the Black Sashas in the apartheid.
You've done a lot, Grant. You've been a warrior.
I wouldn't say that.
My grandmother, Romela, is 99th birthday party.
She didn't want to smile.
Let go of it.
Hello.
We're one year short of a century.
Can you say, great grannies turning 99.
99.
Do you like some tea or something?
That'd be great.
You put the kettle on.
