Brickburn
I hope you won't mind me correcting you slightly on sitting the exams. The RSA Govt apply the Aliens act of 1937 and if the student does not hold a valid RSA residency and have an RSA ID number he/she is forbidden from sitting the exams.
To be absolutely precise they may sit the exams but their papers may not be officially marked/graded.
They can however attend the course and be graded on the field assessments and of course then look to other African countries for work and/or experience etc.
FWIW, IIRC, they started applying said act in about 1995 or so and have grown increasingly strict about that rule ever since...... especially with 'non indigenous' students.
Steve, I have no issues with anyone correcting, commenting or otherwise on anything I write or share.
I would rather people did it than did not.
I was sharing my direct experience.
I sat the exams (3) and passed them in 2011 and it was recorded and I can apply for my PH license in that province.
(I'll have to see if they arrest me when I go back this year.)
There are methods of acquiring a license without being a citizen that were explained in detail to me, although the schools do not promote or broadcast it. Nor does the government.
I believe the instructor and his colleagues form MET to be honourable men and were not misleading the class.
At the time I did not acquire or apply for my PH license as I did not intend to gain employment.
It might just be worthwhile, as an exercise, to make the application when I go back this year, just to test the theory.