Comment 7 for bug 330454

While my previous solution works, I was unhappy that it seemed to kludgy.

A little research revealed someone else, who solved it properly:
http://ultrahigh.org/2009/07/16/broken-en_za-locale-in-ubuntu-jaunty/

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The fix is to download the myspell en_ZA files from here http://downloads.translate.org.za/spellchecker/

Backup the original files
cd /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

sudo mv en_ZA.aff en_ZA.aff.bak

Unzip the file from translate.org.za, and copy it to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff, and do the same for en_ZA.dic

That should give you a working spellchecker in OpenOffice.org

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