Activation of sim taking forever

<p>I received my ipad on 1 March and followed instructions to activate the sim card. After 48hrs still no activation. I called ********** . I was told there is a problem with activation because it's the end of the month and I should wait another 14 days. I panicked because I need to advise Vodacom within 14 days if I'm not happy with the ipad, so I called again and was told to take sim out and put it back and sim will be activated, but still nothing. I phoned again and was told that sim should've been activated. On this call I was told that it would take another 7 days which is unacceptable. </p>