Hum? We have South Africans working here, so I will raise the BS flag on that one
There is always some sort of rumor about this particular gig, if it isn't that they don't hire from a particular company or that they don't hire of a particular nationality or that they won't hire people with experience on a particular A/C, and like 90% of the rumors you hear, it is all a steamy pile of bovine excrement