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THE Cape District FA and Southern Su?burbs FA are cautiously awaiting propo?sals from the SA Football Association (Safa) aimed at ending the conflict between the two associations over demarcation.

This came to light after the hush-hush meetings that Chief Mwelo Nonkonyana, a Safa vice-president, held with the CDFA and Southern Suburbs delegations in Cape Town last Wednesday and Thursday.

Nonkonyana, who is in charge of provincial affairs and competitions at the Safa head office in Johannesburg, told People's Post that both associations have agreed in principle that demarcation should go ahead.

There were, nevertheless, concerns raised about the 77-year-old CDFA losing its name and also the election of the first chairperson and exco committee of the proposed Greater Wynberg Local Football Association (GWLFA), Nonkonyana explained.

According to Safa demarcation policy, the CDFA and Southern Suburbs FA must get together under the new name of Greater Wynberg LFA.

Nonkonyana said that an open election to determine the leadership and executive committee of the GWLFA was possible, according to consensus reached at the joint meeting. He further stressed that he had urged the delegates at both meetings to get their associations "to wind up their administrative affairs as soon as possible".

"They need to compromise and sort out their differences in the interest of the game rather than to suit any personal agendas," said Nonkonyana.

The CDFA has a membership of 26 clubs and Southern Suburbs have eight clubs, following an exodus of some of their leading clubs, like Milano, Greenwood Athletic, Peninsula United and Origan Spurs, to the CDFA over the past two seasons.

However, it is unclear whether the CDFA's greater voting strength will assure the Wynberg-based association of a landslide win in an election.

It is understood that some CDFA clubs will support the nominations of certain Southern Suburbs FA exco members in the voting.

Nonkonyana said that he will liaise with his fellow Safa vice-president, Mohamed Mubarak, about the situation at the CDFA and Southern Suburbs so that finality can be reached at a Safa meeting scheduled to take place in Johannesburg on July 14.

It was Mubarak who met with the associations in April in an unsuccessful attempt to facilitate the launch of the GWLFA.

The GWLFA is the only LFA out of the 19 LFAs under the auspices of Safa-Cape Town that has thus far not complied with the demarcation process.

The national executive committee (NEC) of Safa sent shockwaves through the Wynberg-based CDFA a fortnight ago when it recommended that the LFA, under Albert Marais (president of Southern Suburbs FA), conti?nues to run football as the GWLFA.

The NEC added that clubs from CDFA be allowed to affiliate to the GWLFA. Some clubs have already made approaches to link up with the GWLFA.

Nonkonyana said the NEC's recommendation will only be discarded once the two associations agree to work together.

Marais claimed the high ground at Safa le?vel when he and his Grassy Park-based association founded the South Peninsula LFA, after talks with CDFA reached a stalemate in April.

The Cape District FA president, Winston Engledoe, did not attend the meeting with Nonkonyana, but his vice-president, Basil Palanyandi, and a non-executive member, Ivan Williams, were present to state the CDFA's case. Marais was the sole Southern Suburbs FA member at the Thursday meeting that Nonkonyana held with the CDFA delegation. Nonkonyana had met the Southern Suburbs FA exco last Wednesday evening.

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