Benoni Premier United and Vasco da Gama have the inside track in the race to be promoted to soccer's Premier League.
On Sunday Benoni beat City Pillars 3-1 in the first leg of the promotion playoffs and, on Saturday night, Vasco defeated Bush Bucks 2-0 in East London.
The second legs will be played on the weekend of the 27th and 28th of May.
The two-legged final is scheduled for the 3rd and 11th of June.
Bucks qualified for the playoffs after finishing second last on the Premier League log, while the bottom PSL side Free State Stars were relegated to the First Division.
Wits University, the First Division champions were promoted to the Premier League, while the teams finishing second, third and fourth in the division - Pillars, Vasco and Benoni - joined Bucks in the
weekend playoffs.
On Sunday it was two first-half goals by Obinna Okafor and Godfrey Mokoena that paved the way for a 10-man Benoni victory over Pillars at Milpark in Johannesburg.
Although Benoni hurried and scurried about with a man short during the second period, they deserved their success - simply on the basis that one or two of the Pillars' players should have been sent off in the second half and not the unfortunate Tshepo Masilela.
Masilela was the victim of a crude tackle from Phistos Nekhalele in the 45th minute after which he appeared to accidentally catch the offender's head with his arm while falling.
But although Nekhalele had already been booked, the referee chose to show Masilela a red card.
Pillars dominated play during the second half against the depleted Benoni and reduced the two-goal deficit through the industrious Myron Shongwe in the 61st minute.
It was Benoni, however, who scored against the run of play in the 90th minute when the enterprising Mokoena - the game's dominant hero - scored his second goal to open a two-goal leeway for the second leg in two weeks' time.
On Saturday, Vasco stepped up a gear in the second half against Bucks in East London. They took the lead in the 66th minute through Stephen Phama and then put the game beyond doubt in the 73rd minute when Robbie Santo made it 2-0.
In the 75th minute, a crazy Bush Bucks spectator invaded the pitch chasing the referee on the field while the security guards tried to catch him.
The return leg will be at Athlone Stadium.