Msizi Mkhize, 28, walking home with a friend when he crashed into Kwa-Mashu, a village north of the coastal city of Durban last week.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, and then his body was transported to the morgue in Phoenix, where his body was put in the refrigerator.
Imran Keek, party provincial official opposition Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday:
"When his family arrived for identification pulse was found in a patient by staff in the morgue, he was immediately transferred to Mahatma Gandhi Hospital for resuscitation"
Msizi raised by nurses and his family was informed of his resurgence. However, five hours later, Msizi unfortunately died. Of course, his furious family are now looking for answers.
His father Peter Mkhize said:
"I have no words to express how I feel about what happened to my son." Spend all night and morning in the morgue refrigerator was wrong. "
Desperate father described the emotional roller coaster that started with him coming to the morgue at 8 in the morning to identify the body of her son, and was informed about four hours later that his son was alive - there once was pronounced dead five hours later.
"This day will remain etched in my heart." And sister Msizi, Hlobisile, asked to know who originally said his brother died, describing the test as a "painful and stressful for the family." Keek said the incident showed the extent of the problem and the Ministry of Health word in the province:
"What I want to know is what level of training of staff said his death What are the Protocols" Dr. Rishigen Viranna a GP, said:
"There is a concept in the management of emergency medicine called" golden hour ", where, after a trauma patient has the best chance of a good result, if the receiving hospital or treatment in the first hour." This did not happen in this case. However, the real cause of death will be determined after the autopsy is completed. "The Department of Health of South Africa has opened an investigation of what really happened at the scene.