People are desperate to escape poverty and are turning to charismatic churches that promise them healing and material rewards.
The government has denied an M&G report suggesting Jeff Radebe may have promised weapons to Nigeria in return for the repatriation of the bodies.
A department of health worker died after contracting malaria while assisting with the repatriation of SA victims killed in Nigeria’s church collapse.
Only 74 of the 85 bodies of the South Africans killed in the Nigerian church collapse have arrived the Waterkloof Air Force Base.
DNA samples of the 116 victims of the church building collapse in Nigeria have arrived at a laboratory in SA for analysis.
Despite reports of bodies of 84 South Africans who died in a Nigerian church collapse being returned by the end of October, details are still unclear.
Nigerian officials were tight-lipped about the scope of a probe into a fatal church building collapse in Lagos that killed 84 South Africans.
The ANC Youth League said it would not allow preacher TB Joshua entry into South Africa until an investigation into the church collapse is conducted.
Twenty-six South African survivors from the deadly church collapse in Nigeria are back home, officials say.
A plane carrying survivors from the church collapse in Nigeria was expected to arrive in South Africa at 7am, but officials say it has been delayed.
In 2011, "prophet" TB Joshua was third on the Forbes list of Nigeria’s five richest pastors with a net worth estimated at close to $15-million.
The death toll of South Africans in Nigeria’s deadly church collapse has risen to 84, amid tensions between the two countries over rescue missions.
Scoan preacher TB Joshua said Nigerians, South Africans and other overseas nationals were "martyrs of the Kingdom of God", in the building collapse.
Rescuers have recovered more dead bodies from the rubble at the Scoan building collapse, but say they still have not been able to identify the bodies.
Confusion reigns over the death toll and Nigeria refuses to allow South African search teams access to the site of the collapsed church building.
The "prophet" of Nigeria’s Synagogue Church of All Nations is claimed to have healed a man in a wheelchair, a deaf woman, and even cured Aids.
SA government believes 300 South Africans were visiting the Lagos church, but it was not clear how many were on the spot when the tragedy struck.