Howdy flying Dirk! Shouldn't you be flying your King Air around or something instead of playing around on the internet!
Back to the original question: I have trained at both Flight Training College of South Africa and 43rd Airschool and both come highly reccomended. For a PPL I think I would reccommend 43rd since they have a very structured course that starts monthly whereas the FTC training is more self paced (unless you are one of their cadets).
I very much doubt that SA will join the JAA in the near future - the JAR authorities are acting like an old boys club with a hidden agenda of protecting the uncompetitive training organisations in Europe.
That aside, the training syllabus out here is virtually identical to that over there. FTC do offer JAR approved training in association with Atlantic Airlines in Conventry.