A South African man, Fredie Blom, who celebrated his 114th birthday on Tuesday at his home in Delft, Cape Town, may be the world’s oldest man alive.

Time Live reports that the provincial social development department said Blom’s status is yet to be recognised by the Guinness World Records‚ but it is believed that he could be the oldest man alive.

A report on Blom’s 113th birthday said the former gardener was born in 1904 in Adelaide‚ in the Eastern Cape. His ID number begins with 040508.

He and his wife Jenette‚ 83‚ have no children together.

According to an article on the Guinness World Records website‚ a 112-year-old man, Masazo Nonaka, from Japan was named “oldest person living (male)” on April 10.

Nonaka was exactly 112 years and 259 days old as of the time of the recognition.

“Mr. Nonaka was born on 25 July‚ 1905 – just two years after the Wright Brothers celebrated the first power-driven flight and just months before Einstein published his special theory of relativity‚” the article read.

“He has six brothers and one sister and his already large family grew further after he married Hatsuno in 1931‚ going on to have five children with her.”