South Africa to go the JAR route
TCASS,
All in all - a very accurate,thorough and useful above info - re converting a SA CAA CPL to a JAR CPL / ATPL.
Come and join the many South African pilots in Europe - some armed with SA CPL - in the huge undertaking of studying towards a JAR ATPL.
A thought / a plan for you to consider - unless you are already in Europe studying ! - South Africa will be adopting the JAR licensing system in the next year or two.This will provide a huge change and improvement to the SA flight training industry. It is a change which has been inevitable and a long time coming considering that JAR is required everywhere for that international flying job - barring working for some US airlines.
Once the serious flying training organisations in South Africa have embraced and been licenced to conduct the required JAR ground/ flying training - there will be in time a possibly cheaper option of embarking down JAR licence route by training in South Africa. Hopefully this will in time open the floodgates with European students flocking to SA for cheaper,quality flying training.This will also jumpstart the investment in . good, new generation training aircraft. Aircraft like the new Aussie Boomerang aircraft and similiar. All in all a good ting!
Good luck with your studies and career.