Frustration from Disfunctional booking website

I tried to book tickets from George to Cape Town and back.<br> All went as normal except that the website would not accept the country code for SA (+27 or 27)<br> <br> In desperation I contacted Airlink whose response was that \It happens all the time".<br> In this day and age that is simply unacceptable - cannot even get the website to function properly.<br> <br> In their defence"