South African wanting to adopt...

"I have no idea if they plan on making it impossible (or next to it) or not." Well, if they do then they'd better do it for reasons they can justify in court, which would mean acquitting themselves of their obligations in terms of the children's act, the '93 convention, PAJA and the Constitution. Knowing the SA government as I do, that's not likely to happen... To be fair though, they have been pretty nice about it so far.