Heard very recently that the FAA did pay a visit to the SACAA. They simply pointed out areas wher in their minds the CAA fall short and that they have recently down graded both the Ghana and Greek Caa's to level 2 or B or something. In essence, this means no US schedules to those countries and none of those country's aircraft to the USA. They also mentioned that they would be back shortly!
I understand that there is an extremely urgent move afoot to staff the CAA with capable individuals. That is ones with experience and pale males have an excellent chance of being employed.
The threat being that should nothing be done and the FAA are ignored, the only outfit shuttling spectators to the 2010 world cup in SA will be Starlight Cruises and the like!