The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) expect the hearings to continue into next week.

The committee is looking into the role of Athletics South Africa (ASA) in the gender testing of Semenya.

ASA president Leonard Chuene admitted that he lied about knowledge of gender tests involving the 18-year-old athlete.

Semenya won the 800 metres at the World Championships in August in Berlin.

Before the final, the world governing body for track and field said it had ordered gender tests on the runner.

Three of ASA's 17 provincial affiliates have called for the entire Board to step down because of the Semenya affair.

The Board must take collective responsibility, regardless of race or other affiliation, the Provinces claimed.

The Boland, Eastern Province and Western Province Provincial Athletics Associations said in a joint statement that the board, along with ASA senior management, should "take collective responsibility" for the "Caster Semenya gender row fiasco" and "resign with immediate effect."

The three bodies said they had called upon ASA last week to "explain various matters relating to an incident which occurred at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin".

ASA team doctor Harold Adams, also the President of Boland Athletics advised team management to withdraw Semenya from the women's 800m race in Berlin in light of results he had received from gender tests done on the athlete in Pretoria earlier that month.

ASA president Leonard Chuene and the team managers chose to ignore Adams' advice and allowed Semenya to run.

On their return from Berlin, Chuene and ASA general manager Molatelo Malehopo, who had ordered the tests done on Semenya in Pretoria, repeatedly denied that the tests had been conducted.

At a press conference last month, Chuene eventually admitted they had lied, but insisted they had done so to protect Semenya.

On September 24, ASA called a special general meeting in Kempton Park to discuss the actions taken by the federation and it was widely expected that the provincial affiliates would give Chuene a vote of no confidence.

But Chuene's place at the head of the board was never discussed at the meeting.

Afterwards, senior provincial officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Sapa they had been "too scared" to stand up against Chuene due to his political connections.

They added that many association presidents owed their positions to Chuene and that he had warned them "if I go, you go".

But the Boland, Western Province and Eastern Province Associations have officially called for the entire board to share the blame with Chuene and step down.

They said: "The [ASA] board and senior management have not taken responsibility for the events which have occurred, choosing to rather allow the president of ASA to bear that responsibility.

"It needs to be pointed out that the president of ASA is, in terms of its constitution, a non-executive president and that he alone cannot take all the blame."

The associations also said that ASA had not openly shared other "relevant information" with the affiliates.

The statement said: "For example the 2008 financial statements have never been sent to ASA's members despite the provisions of the ASA Constitution and the Companies Act."

The affiliates claimed that ASA Board member Hendrick Mokganyetsi had disrupted an athletes' meeting in Pretoria last week and that Mokganyetsi had accused meeting organiser Geraldine Pillay of racism after she said some of his colleagues showed up drunk.

Chuene has repeatedly accused the International Association of Athletics Federations of racism for conducting gender tests on Semenya, which were done a little over a month after ASA had conducted their own tests without informing Semenya beforehand.

The associations said: "It is disturbing that the issue of race has entered into this matter.

"Race is irrelevant to the current matter, which relates to the failure of corporate governance at Athletics South Africa.

"There is no question that any specific members, or specific groups, of the ASA board or senior management are being called upon for an explanation.

"The entire senior structure is standing together and must take collective responsibility, regardless of race or other affiliation.

"The quest for a non-racial country and non-racial sport is as relevant now as it was 20 years ago.

"Any attempt by anyone, from whatever political background, to bring race into this matter must be rejected."

The three affiliates also called for ASA to "apologise unconditionally" to the SA Government, the public, and Semenya.