The Vhembe office of the South African Football Association (Safa) decided to dissolve the executive committee of the Makhado Local Football Association on Monday. This follows months of quarrels, boycotts and a blatant refusal by teams playing under the Makhado LFA banner to accept the body´s financial statements. In August last year, teams that competed in the Sinthumule/Kutama area opted to boycott the league matches, urging Safa to intervene. A Safa delegation, lead by the chairperson of the competition committee, Hulisa Mabasa, eventually managed to resolve the matter and the teams started playing again. Mabasa promised to investigate the allegations of mismanagement of funds by the Makhado Local Football Association. According to Safa Vhembe´s president, Mr Thivhonali Khorommbi Nemavhola, the rules and regulations that govern the sport do not allow any single member or a group of members to run the association according to their own laws. “If you don´t comply with the rules of Fifa or Safa, the mother body has the mandate to dissolve the executive committee. We need people who work for the people, not for themselves,” he said. Khorommbi appointed an interim committee that will run the association. The association will be headed by Mr Albert Malisha, the deputy-president of Safa Vhembe. He will be assisted by Mrs Livhuwani Mudau and Hulisani Mabasa from now until May 15, when a new committee must be elected. Attempts to reach the outgoing president of the Makhado Local Football Association, Mr George Kubayi, for comment were unsuccessful. One of the dissolved committee members, who was against the decision taken by the executive committee, Mr Jeffrey Thonga, said that the team bosses were starting to get their house in order. “We had several meetings with the mother body, Safa Vhembe, asking them to investigate the matter, which they never did. If you look at the financial statements, it shows that we used stationery at a cost of R22 000. We do not know which stationery they are talking about, because when we register players we go with our own stationery. When we asked to see our league logs, they told us to go and look in Mirror newspaper. We need people who will work for the development of soccer and not for their own benefit,” said Thonga. He thanked Safa Vhembe for their contribution and their investigation.