Japanese whiskies have notoriously been in low-supply and high-demand over the last 10 years, and as a smaller market, South Africa has struggled more than most to get stock. (We are ignoring the semi-Japanese blends that have become widely available in recent years which contain ample amounts of non-Japanese whisky.)
Hopefully those days are now behind us: Famed Japanese whisky producer, Suntory, has made two of its standard releases available to SA whisky-lovers! If you haven't been able to explore Japanese whisky yet, now's the time!