That's a trifle along the lines of a rock in the sky post, an arrester wire of a missive!
The presumption here has to be a reference to the alleged licence purchase possibilities at certain southern hemisphere civil aviation authorities?
The truth of the matter really is that the state of affairs at 43rd or any other flight school anywhere is irrelevant if the licence system and thus the appropriate CAA itself is corrupt?
As the holder of a lapsed ZA ATPL who has been trying to resurrect it for some time now, this pilot has found the CAA to be less than helpful and quite dilatory in arriving at any conclusion whatsoever. The South African CAA, from this pilot's seat, behaves with all its old fashioned portcullised ignorance which was as much a characteristic of the Afrikaans management as it is under the new tribal authority. In fact, one would consider perhaps, possibly paying, shall we say, a dividend, just to expedite the delay and accomplish the mission. Thereby hangs the rub of course for if someone who really has no serious use for a South African licence any longer, a licence which he has once earned, held and operated under, has become so exasperated that he is prepared to cut the corners, think what the pressures must be under for those who can actually make money out of the arrangement and who is not up to the mark, especially if a somewhat underhanded route is the only one available?
Perhaps it would ginger things up a bit if such a CAA came amiss at its ICAO audit?
Probably, even were that to happen, the disgrace would be meaningless to those who should be abashed at it and simply lead to a raising of whatever charges might, or might not, already be levied for extracurricular paperwork.
Perhaps someone in the know could post the designation and details of the ICAO operative heading any inspection in order that reports could be sent to that organization. Reports which would, of course, have to be absolutely anonymous lest sudden decapitation await the insidious troublemaker?
As for the state of affairs at 43rd itself, one has absolutely no knowledge of the place whatsoever, although the name itself is more than mildly pretentious. It could be, of course, that there are those in South Africa who believe that those from other countries in Africa have come to 43rd in order to take advantage of a certain rumoured easy licence advantage route. If such were the case, then of course a certain degree of nationalistic pride may be making itself felt. Nationalism and racism are really not of the same emotional fabric and should not be confused, although they can both produce the same rather unpleasant form of discrimination. Indeed, it could perhaps be argued that nationalism is a European concept of separation whereas racism is an African one; parallel concepts with the same unhappy results. No matter then, but perhaps those who are obliged to seek flight training in countries other than their own and who feel that as a consequence of such action they become victims of circumstance or location had best direct their attention to their own governments in order to establish their own training schools appropriate to their desired standards.