Overview
- Reports recount that Sipho William Mdletshe, then in his twenties from Sebokeng south of Johannesburg, was declared dead after a car crash in 1993.
- According to the articles, morgue workers heard noises about 48 hours later, opened a cold-storage drawer, and found him conscious and calling for help.
- Subsequent accounts cited by Unilad say his fiancée later recoiled from him, believing he was a walking corpse after being told he had died.
- The pieces place the story alongside other alleged premature-death episodes, including Essie Dunbar in 1915 and a woman found breathing at a Palma funeral parlour last year.
- Mirror and Daily Star provide no new medical records or official findings and rely on previous reporting to frame a pattern of mistaken death pronouncements.