We have to get this figured out!!!

In Singapore, even the guy to the right is tired.

Getting ready to leave our second continent almost ended like trying to leave our first continent, with us not getting on the plane.  Our arrival at the Singapore Air check in at the Johannesburg airport had us informed that we do not need a visa, but we do need an eTA which is an electronic visa.  This should not be an issue as they are applied for online and require no time to get.  However, we are in Africa and if you have been reading, Internet in Africa is not good.  Our data on the phone is not good enough to get the process going, and none of the airlines in the area have internet.  We then race to the Vodacom shop (South Africa's version of Bell), but they do not have internet - where they sell internet.  We end up in the Dry Cleaner's store next door and bribe the girl 30 US to use her computer.  The eTA visa takes about 7 or 8 minutes to complete, and all five must be completed individually and from scratch.  Then my credit card is denied after doing the first three completed.  Even MasterCard is against us.  We finally finish and run full out back to the check in desk.  The desk closes at 1:05 pm, and we are checked in at 1:03 pm.  We get a personal escort through passport control and all the way to our plane.  Not even time for a washroom pitstop.  On the plane, we are all rattled but on our way to Singapore.
Remember the unabridged birth certificates we required for South Africa.  Well we did need them for when we first landed into South Africa.  However, when we departed South Africa into Swaziland, and then reentered SA, and when we departed South Africa yesterday, the birth certificates were not required.  So our thoughts that South Africa was trying to curb illegal adoptions is false, they seem to actually be trying to prevent more kids from entering the country. 
Singapore Air is a fantastic airway.  Our flight was about 10 hours to Singapore and another 7 to Melbourne, with a four hour layover in Singapore, felt way shorter than our flight from Brussels to Capetown via Addis. 
Good internet in Australia, we are closely checking into the requirements for the Asian countries while listening to the Toronto / Washington overtime game.