“It was not a pretty sight. He was changing to purple, had become very dark and started to smell,” says relative of 37-year-old man who died on July 16.
Issues at Hillbrow mortuary have been resolved, but this comes too late for a family who suffered the traumas caused by the delays“It was not a pretty sight. He was changing to purple, had become very dark and started to smell.” ..From World War 1 to present-day cosmopolitan South Africa and beyond, the Sunday Times has been a pillar in covering the stories that matter to you.
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