ANC veterans join call for Pirates to cancel Maccabi friendly The ANC Veterans League on Tuesday added its voice to growing calls for orlandopirates to withdraw from a scheduled pre-season friendly match against Israeli side MaccabiTelAviv.
from a scheduled pre-season friendly match against Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday.
“It is unthinkable that during this period when apartheid Israeli forces are reigning terror on the Palestinian people, one of our country’s most popular teams, Orlando Pirates is playing ball with an Israeli team,” said convenor of the national task team of the ANC veterans, Snuki Zikalala. “The Veteran’s League is calling on Safa bosses Danny Jordaan and Irvin Khoza to call off this match immediately. We say, as we did in the dark days of apartheid in SA,League representatives will contact Safa to raise the matter with them directly.“There is nothing ‘friendly’ about playing a team representing apartheid Israel,” BDS said.
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