Credit Card Activation Error

I app**** for Credit Card and the application process I have to say was brilliant 5 days and the card was delivered. But to activate it is impossible over the phone firstly. Then the call centers there are like 3 numbers you have to phone to try and activate. Then they tell you please go into the branch. So I went to a branch just to find out that after an hour of waiting there are issues with activating the cards for the past few weeks. This is bad. To tell a client there are system errors for the past few weeks I have to wait. How long? What does the client do now?

ABSA already listed my on the Credit Bureaus as a new account but I cannot use the Credit.

I am getting feeling that this is going to take very long to activate. I also see that I am not the only complaining about this, this has been going on for years as form the previous posts