Pete
A SA CPL/H who I know in Cape Town tells me one of the schools out their is going for JAR approval and also 43 air school, it would be nicer than Transvaal. I am originally from durbs but have done most training in UK.
You could always do hour building on a SA PPL with a conversion it would be cheaper at a cape school than FTC or UK. For ground school talk to Alex Whittingham at Bristol Groundschool I went there and passed most first time. It's not residential but alot of residential school's seem to go OTT on irrelevant stuff, also lots of fellow colonials.
Don't discount FTC I am told all a/c are new and instruction is apparently quite good. My friend there says best to talk to Jay the JAR manger directly about flying and Oliver Boulet about ground school. Also back a few months on this forum there were some people who had done courses there suggest you do a search to see what they say.
best of luck