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AF and KLM have too many premium seats going empty into Africa, as well as being stung by EK and the other Gulf carriers across their route systems, so they've been deep discounting these routes to fill those seats, not to scare off AC. At the moment, things are fairly normal price-wise because there's considerable demand during the SAfrican summer, European/NAmerican winter.
See and this is just it. JNB would completely route Emirates. Nobody is going to spend 25-40 hours in transit when they can do it in 16 nonstop. It would also put the wash to KLMs traffic to the region from Canada.