Advocate Johann S Gaum, who represents three of the four former Soweto Security Branch members, said his clients wanted the state to pay their costs, as it did in the case of Jackie Selebi.Now deceased, Selebi was national police commissioner when he was bust for corruption in 2010.He had to repay the SA Police Service R17.4-million after he was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Selebi had not paid back the money when he died in January last year. The former officers - Willem Coetzee, Anton Pretorius, Frederick Mong and Msebenzi Radebe - forced a postponement of their trial in the Pretoria High Court yesterday because of the payment issue. Their legal representatives and the state prosecutor agreed that the matter be postponed to September 20.Gaum said his clients had petitioned Gauteng provincial police commissioner Lieutenant-General Deliwe Suzan de Lange to pay their fees, but she had declined the application.Gaum said she had been given a chance to reconsider her decision and they were awaiting her reply.He said the charges against the accused "emanate from the time when they were on duty as policemen".Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo, spokesman for the police, said he would check if the three had applied for payment of their fees.Simelane disappeared in 1983. Then based in Swaziland, she was in South Africa on an ANC mission. Her body has not been found...