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.