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THE old Safa-Western Province has landed itself in double troubl... first with the Cape High Court and now with the SA Football Association.

Shock No 1 for the Safa-WP, headed by Vernon Seymour, recently hit home in the High Court.

The court declared on 14 November that the legal costs of the Cape Town-Tygerberg FA's successful application to stop the Safa-WP from pushing ahead with certain demarcation-related policies in March, have since escalated from an estimated R200 000 to R483 000.

However, Seymour said on Sunday past: "At this stage I have received no documentation regarding the court case. "So I cannot offer any comment."

He said he did not know whether any of his fellow-officials "received the do?cumentation".

The other shock that threatens to hit the Safa-WP hard is an ultimatum from the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the SA Football Association, that says the 25 old regions, including the Safa-WP, had to submit their books of accounts for auditing by Friday, 1 December.

The NEC was requested to "advise the trustees of the old regions, who failed to submit all their books of accounts by the deadline, that the activities relating to their region and the personnel concerned, will be immediately suspen?ded".

Mubarak Mohamed, an NEC member and a vice-president of the Safa, said on Monday the final decision to suspend any of the old regions and their office-bearers for not complying with the December 1 deadline rests solely with Molefe Olifant, the Safa president.

Mubarak said Olifant is expected to respond on the matter later this week.

Vince Baartjes, the chairperson of the dissolution committee dealing with the winding-up of the finances of the Safa-WP, said that to date he has received "no books from the Safa-WP to pass on to the Safa for auditing purposes".

Baartjes said the increased legal costs have seriously aggravated the Safa-WP's financial position. He estimated that the old Safa-WP is about R750 000 in the red.

The High Court's final judgement is a sequel to the CTTFA's case on demarcation that was supported by three other Safa-WP affiliates, namely Northern Suburbs, Mitchell's Plain and Metropolitan FA (Bonteheuwel).

This took place before the founding of the new Safa-Cape Town, which replaced the Safa-WP in May.

In the latest court saga, the judge also ruled that attorney Hilton Moodaley, an executive member of the old Safa-WP, acted unlawfully when he received a writ to attach and remove CTTFA's office assets to the value of R31 000 in August.

This unlawful step related to a separate High Court ruling that found Seymour and the Safa-WP were not acting in contempt of court for failing to attend the first court hearing and for organi?sing a soccer competition without the approval of the new Safa-CT in May.

Moodaley's action was described as "being irregular, invalid and of no force and effect".

The court ruled that the assets of CTTFA had to be returned, but that the CTTFA was still liable to R31 000 in legal costs.

Attorney,AJ Tappenden, for the CTTFA, said his clients intend to offset the R31 000 from the total costs due to them. This would reduce the Safa-WP's legal costs to R452 000.

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