Anti-apartheid activist Reverend Allan Boesak says more still needs to be done to alleviate poverty among South Africans.

Boesak delivered the keynote address at the commemoration of the Trojan Horse Massacre in Athlone on the Cape Flats.

On October 15, 1985, members of the security forces and railway police ambushed youth who were protesting against the apartheid government.

Twenty-one-year-old Jonathan Claasen, 15-year-old Shaun Magmoed and eleven-year-old Michael Miranda were killed.

Boesak says children are dying of hunger.

“The struggle is still going because there is still so much to do. As long as there is still one child who dies of hunger, we have work to do. As long as there is a mother, as we saw in the Eastern Cape a year or two ago, who had to kill her children because she could not stand watching them die of hunger and that’s why she killed herself because she could not live with herself, there is more work to do,” Boesak says.

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