After a lengthy discussion, it was agreed that the proposal be deferred pending a workshop to educate affiliates about it. Sports codes did not clearly agree on what should be done about the document. There was a brief silence after the BNSC executive committee asked the meeting to approve the document. Then Botswana Softball Association (BSA) president Marumo Morule raised his hand and asked to speak. He said he is against approving the document because it was going to disempower some codes.
"I want to be honest with you, I have read this document and I do not understand it and I am not going to pass something that I do not understand," Morule said. Although some codes like netball did not have a problem with the document being passed, Morule warned of the consequences of approving the proposal as it is. He said codes have a tendency of approving documents that they have not even read. "We just have a culture of passing documents just to follow procedure and score points amongst ourselves but please let us not affirm this proposal," pleaded Morule. Although he did not get much support, he refused to give in as he raised his hand time and again to make his case. "We can not dispute the fact that this is not the first time that we have asked for an extension. We are just asking you to give us more time, is that too much to ask," asked Nelson Amanze of Botswana Tennis Association (BTA). BNSC additional member Sesupo Mosweu was however, not happy with the request saying the affiliates were given ample time to look at the document and submit further proposals if any but they failed to do so. He did not understand why some feared the document when most of the things they did not like were removed. "I have a feeling people did not read this document, because I don't understand how the fear that you had about the initial document can be transferred to the second one which is totally different," Mosweu said. He advised affiliates that issues of procedure are important and they should always be committed by promises they make. BNSC chairperson Daniel Tau shared Mosweu's sentiments and advised that affiliates should always be time-consciousness in whatever they do. "We could have long sensed that you are against the proposal if you had talked to us in time," Tau said. He thanked affiliates for being honest in expressing their reservations about the document. He said the council will arrange a workshop to educate affiliates on the document and give them time to advise BNSC about the faults that they have identified.
