The show will go on - that's the word from a source close to the event scheduled for the Dome in Johannesburg from 12-14 June - but who the presenters will be, is hanging in the balance.
The BBC announced on Wednesday that it would not be renewing loud-mouth presenter Jeremy Clarkson's contract to host the BBC2 TV programme Top Gear, which will expire on Tuesday 31 March.
This followed an investigation into a fracas on location in North Yorkshire with one of the show's producers that saw Oisin Tymon, 36, end up in the emergency room with a split lip.
It is now widely expected that Clarkson's two co-presenters, Richard Hammond and James May, will not renew their contracts for the show either and will leave with Clarkson on Tuesday.
BBC director general Lord Hall has said the television series would continue, but without Clarkson and, possibly, without Hammond and May either.
NOW THIS IS WHERE IT GETS COMPLICATED
Clarkson, Hammond and May each have a second contract with BBC Worldwide and Brand Events to host a series of Top Gear Live arena shows around the world, from Norway to Australia, including the South African leg in June.
It is understood that these contracts are not up for renewal, and are enforceable from either side - but whether either Clarkson or the management of the BBC, which has just very publicly fired him from his day job, would want to enforce them, is another matter altogether.
According to a source close to the event, representatives of BBC Worldwide and Brand Events have been locked in negotiations since the announcement on Wednesday. Unwilling - or unable - to simply cancel the enormously lucrative events, they have yet to agree on exactly who will be on stage when the curtain does goes up.
Whether it will be a 'reunion' of Clarkson, Hammond and May, which would be embarrassing for the BBC, hugely satisfying for Clarkson and very, very good for ticket sales, or just Hammond and May, possibly with an as-yet-unnamed third presenter, or a completely new line-up, nobody knows yet.
The Norwegian shows, originally scheduled for this weekend in Stavanger, have been either 'canceled' or 'postponed' - depending on who you're talking to - because there simply wasn't time to put any sort of agreement in place.
Our sources at the South African end of the set-up are hoping for a an announcement from Brand Events in London either today or early next week; as soon as we know, so will you.