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22 Sep 2014

Ruben Kruger, a veteran of 36 tests in the green and gold, returned after a week in Nigeria and declared that a Pentecostal preacher he called the Prophet had healed his brain cancer, City Press reports.

Temitope Balogun “TB” Joshua prayed for him in the Synagogue Church of All Nations compound while thousands of people sang, danced and wailed, Kruger said.

Read the rest of Jacques Pauw's story about his visit to Joshua's church here.

22 Sep 2014

SA govt hasn't received any communication from TB Joshua. Nigerian govt has been very co-operative - Radebe

22 Sep 2014

Already aircraft is ready to bring bodies home - Radebe

22 Sep 2014

SA forensic scientists processing DNA of the deceased in Nigeria. - Radebe

22 Sep 2014

Specialists waiting for injured at Steve Biko Hospital.

22 Sep 2014

Police, defence, health, state security all involved in bringing patients home. - Radebe

22 Sep 2014

Injured persons very grateful to be back home in South Africa - Radebe

22 Sep 2014

Radebe tells eNCA the scene in Lagos was a sad one.

22 Sep 2014

Minister Radebe thanks medical experts who assisted the injured back home.

22 Sep 2014

The injured person who developed gangrene might have their toes amputated at Steve Biko hospital, said Radebe earlier.

22 Sep 2014

And with that, the media briefing is over.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe says he doesn't know why 1 person decided to return to the church.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe has said that they will now deal with transporting the deceased from Nigeria into the country.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe says 3 patients had limbs amputated, 1 was rushed to hospital developed gangrene.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe says this is the biggest evacuation in SANDF history since democracy.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe: This the first milestone of this journey. We still have a lot of work to do.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe names a few people specifically and thank them for their help in getting people home safe.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe says there were only 25 people on the plane. One person returned to the synagogue on Sunday.

22 Sep 2014

Radebe says they hear 115 people have now died, but the number of South Africans dead has not gone up.

22 Sep 2014

Minister Jeff Radebe is now addressing media. He says the plane's landing was not due to the Air Force but because ambulances in Lagos had to move patients.

22 Sep 2014

Military personnel on Monday morning swiftly attended to South Africans injured in the Nigeria church building collapse, reports Sapa.

Shortly after the C130 SA Air Force plane carrying them landed at the Swartkop Air Force Base in Pretoria, an initial batch of the patients was whisked off to hospital.

Most of the patients were brought out of the plane on stretchers and taken to ambulances parked nearby.

Read the full article here

22 Sep 2014

The last of the 12 ambulances is departing from Swartkop Air Force base for Steve Biko Hospital, says reporter Erin Bates.
Follow Bates's tweets here

22 Sep 2014

More than 10 ambulances are already lined up on the runway, ready to go.

22 Sep 2014

See our gallery of the victims arriving on home soil.
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22 Sep 2014

See a video below of the plane landing in Pretoria.

22 Sep 2014

Survivors will be treated in a designated section of Steve Biko Academic Hospital.

22 Sep 2014

Social workers would receive two South African toddlers orphaned by the building collapse in Nigeria when they arrived in the country on Monday morning, an official said.

The two orphans were aged 18 months and 2-years-old, acting Cabinet spokesperson Phumla Williams said.

Another child, aged 6, was also part of the 26 injured South Africans arriving home from Nigeria.

22 Sep 2014

A plane carrying 26 South Africans injured in a building collapse in Nigeria arrived at the Swartkop Air Force Base in Pretoria on Monday morning.

The C130 SA Air Force plane touched down at 10:42.

Three children were among the injured, including an 18-month-old baby and a 2-year-old toddler who lost both their parents in the collapse that killed 84 South Africans.

22 Sep 2014

An ambulance has left for Steve Biko hospital, 12 were deployed to Swartkop Air Force base for this operation, says a reporter at the base.

22 Sep 2014

Some survivors are able to walk and are seen being assisted off the plane.

22 Sep 2014

The media has been kept a distance from the aircraft that brought the injured back.
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