Fair do's - I did not realise that it had to be issued by the flight school. I reckon it has to be easier and cheaper to go to SA now. Although having been knocked out of their own world cup maybe now is not such a good time. They deserved to get through unlike us!!
On a separate note - if you have a JAA IR and want to fly Instrument stuff in the US - do you have to do a full IR FAA?