Suffering from the same issue, also from South Africa.
There is clearly something deeply flawed with the Matchmaking system since release, it just doesn't pool players together at all.
While we're all basically enjoying insanely-fast progression compared to other regions, since bots are free kills, it's only a matter of time before this becomes way more stale and boring to play than it already is and the local community abandons the game.
For a game costing 1/10th to 1/15th of a monthly salary not to have it's mutliplayer (primary mode) function correctly, is absurd.
