I've heard numurous rumors.
1. Supervisor at DCA (won't mention name) must approve each application individually, although the first several were sent on without his approval, so they have to come back and be signed by him.
2. The first ones were to come through Friday (yesterday) - none did.
3. Parliament has been discussing this in open session all week, so Home Affairs will do nothing until after a resolution in gov't.
4. companies are now scrounging for non-grounded pilots, sharing across companies at an alarming rate, and some are even turning away customers (not very often)
But this is Africa (or at least that's what I'm told - I've also been told it's just Africa for beginners) so who knows what the real story is.
I have heard nothing about "low timers being turned down", but then define low timers.