SIM not supported? Help!

I have just moved from the UK to South Africa taking two iPhone 4's with me. I restored one of my iPhone's to factory setting because I wanted to give it to my Wife. I took out the UK SIM's and put in South African Pre-Paid SIM's from Vodacom into both phones. One iPhone works fine however, for the iPhone which I had restored to factory settings, once I unlocked the SIM and connected to iTunes I got this message:
THE SIM CARD INSERTED IN THIS IPHONE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE SUPPORTED
What do I do about this?

Yes it will be locked to O2
But at this time they are not unlocking the iPhone 4.
I know I regularly put in the unlock form in and get a polite rejection ............there is no indication
when they will include the iP4
http://www.o2.co.uk/unlockmyiphone
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