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SAFA-CAPE TOWN is engaged in a fine balancing act to broker a compromise between the Cape District FA and Sou?thern Suburbs FA on the demarcation issue.

This came to light after the Safa-CT chairman, Bennett Bailey, and his executive committee met with the CDFA exco last Thursday to address the CDFA's problems surrounding their joining the SSFA under the banner of the Greater Wynberg LFA.

The CDFA are not alone in the dock as Bailey will also be in touch with Albert Marais, the chairman of the GWLFA and SSFA, to tell the GWLFA to hold back their recommendation that the CDFA clubs, who have not joined the GWLFA, should be suspended from all Safa-CT competitions with immediate effect.

Milano-Hotspurs, a former SSFA club, was the only club from the CDFA to seek affiliation at a GWLFA meeting last Thursday.

Bailey disclosed that his exco will recommend that the CDFA and SSFA should run separate knockout competitions to qualify for the final phase of the new Red Heart Rum Challenge Cup instead of competing toge?ther under the GWLFA umbrella.

"The Safa-CT exco has committed itself to get the GWLFA off the ground before the start of the 2007 season. The GWLFA and CDFA need to find common ground."

"If they persist in fighting each other, then the Safa-CT will have little alternative but to appoint a neutral committee to run the affairs of the GWLFA," said Bailey.

Bailey said that he told the CDFA exco at the meeting that the Safa-CT was perturbed at the "negative tone of part of their correspondence" that the CDFA had sent to Safa-CT when it complained about the GWLFA showing disrespect to the CDFA.

Bailey was referring to the CDFA implying that the GWLFA and SSFA excos were "car boot administrators".

He said that some of the CDFA's concerns regarding the lateness of correspondence were valid and were being addressed.

Bailey added that the Cape District FA had re-affirmed its commitment to demarcation at the meeting.

He said that the Safa-CT vice-president, Les Mondo, who has been appointed to chair all meetings involving the CDFA and SSFA, has proposed that the two associations each appoint six persons to serve on an interim committee under the chairmanship of Marais.

Winston Engledoe, the chairman of the CDFA, said that his association accepted Mondo's recommendation.

The SSFA has insisted in the past that only their members should be allowed to serve on the exco of the GWLFA because the CDFA "was not supportive of the GWLFA" at previous meetings.

But, Marais said he was aware of Mondo's proposal, but that he expected that the SSFA may only reconsider their stance once the CDFA makes some commitment to the demarcation process.

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