of others beneath the debris slowly turn silent.
For five days the 33-year-old was
trapped inside a toilet next to the dining hall of the collapsed
Synagogue Church of All Nations, breathing only through a small hole in
the wreckage.
In the end, she was forced to drink her own urine to survive.
"It's
like a dream to me that really, it's me that came out from here," the
South African told media on Saturday as she surveyed the remains of the
church in the Nigerian city of Lagos.
"I don't believe it. The tears that I cry, it's because I don't believe."
A
total of 86 people were killed and dozens more left trapped when the
guesthouse attached to the church run by Nigerian preacher TB Joshua
collapsed on September 12.
Some 350 South Africans were
thought to be visiting the church in the Ikotun neighbourhood of the
megacity of Lagos when the three-storey building came down during
construction work.
Joshua,
one of Nigeria's best-known evangelical preachers, on Sunday pledged to
go to South Africa to meet survivors and their families.
Known
by followers across the world as "The Prophet" or "The Man of God",
Joshua claims to work miracles, including raising people from the dead,
healing the sick and foreseeing disasters.
He
observed a minute of silence at his weekly morning service, and said he
would "be travelling to South Africa to meet people from South Africa
and other nations... in memory of martyrs of faith".
But
South Africa's largest opposition party on Sunday said it will push the
government to launch a class action against the church, where 84 of its
nationals lost their lives.
Democratic Alliance shadow
foreign minister Stevens Mokgalapa said the fact that rescue workers
complained that staff at the church had impeded their work in the
immediate aftermath of the disaster meant there could be cause for legal
action.
"The DA believes
that there is now enough evidence for the South African government to,
at the very least, explore the possibility of a class action suit
against the (church) on behalf of the affected families," Mokgalapa said
in a statement.
"It stands
to reason that the church and its members may be criminally liable for
the death of a number of South Africans who could have been rescued from
the rubble if rescue work was speedily permitted."
Jeff
Radebe, a South African minister in charge of Pretoria's response to
the disaster, told reporters on Sunday that a specially-equipped plane
was ready to evacuate 26 wounded nationals, including three children.
He said 16 of the group were critically injured.
"The
aircraft is fully equipped and staffed by a medical team, including
specialised surgeons, to treat the injured for the 10-hour flight," he
added.
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan visited the church on Saturday and promised to investigate the cause of the tragedy.
He
said he would hold talks with stakeholders in the construction industry
on how to prevent such a thing happening again, expressing his
condolences to South African President Jacob Zuma.
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