Got new email today from a different visa company and that may be encouraging. I have planned alternative trip (non-cruise) from Cape Town just in case.
Sadly, it seems i would lose my Regent fare $$$. A week to go and it's disgusting, geoplotics, almost all politics, it seems today are heavy-handed and lack compassion for all kinds of people, of either stripe or stripes!
Cape Town to Rio, 12 Jan, Voyager