NEW DELHI: Pro-Palestine activists gathered outside Cape Town's
Newlands Cricket Stadium
ahead of the second Test between India and
South Africa
on Wednesday. They voiced anti-Israel sentiments and called for the dismissal of national U-19 skipper
David Teeger
due to his remarks supporting the
Israeli Army
.
The small group of protestors displayed signs reading "Boycott, Apartheid Israel" and "Smash Apartheid Israel for a Six," while also chanting slogans advocating for an independent Palestine.
The demonstration outside the stadium included expressions of discontent against Teeger, the U-19 national skipper.
Israel launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip after the Hamas militant group attacked the Jewish nation on October 7 last year, killing 1,200 people.
The protestors outside the stadium also indulged in sloganeering against Teeger, the U-19 national skipper.
"David Teeger, you don't deserve to captain our country," shouted a protester.
Teegar, during a speech at the Jewish Achiever Awards where he was conferred as the 'Rising Star', had said: "I've been awarded this award, and yes, I am now the rising star, but the true rising stars are the young soldiers in Israel."
The ceremony took place on October 22 last year.
According to an article in local website timeslive.com.za, a complaint was lodged by the Palestine Solidarity Alliance against 18-year-old Teeger. However, Cricket South Africa's internal inquiry committee absolved him of any wrongdoing.
"The inquiry, chaired by advocate Wim Trengove SC, found Teeger had not contravened clause 1.5.2 of CSA's Rules and Code of Conduct that governs 'unbecoming or detrimental conduct which could bring them, CSA or the game of cricket into disrepute'," article said.
(With PTI inputs)
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