Ben Dekker, Wild Coast hermit, dies aged 86

Ben Dekker, an 86-year-old who lived in a hut on South Africa's Wild Coast near Port St Johns, died of natural causes on 9 Nov at Isilimela Hospital, according to Daily Maverick. He had been receiving care at the hospital for the month before his death. Dekker was born on 21 Oct 1940 in Centane, Eastern Cape. Earlier, acting station commander Sarel Venter arrested him after a woman was seen with him on a beach near the Umzimvubu Lagoon.