By Peta Lee Economic empowerment is vital, said the Reverend Joseph Lowery. Man cannot live by bread alone, but there's no getting away from it. He does need bread. You can't very well wander through the corridors for days on end.
Economic empowerment is crucial.
Public policy must provide guides and programmes for people to reach their goals and achieve their potential and entrepreneurship. And we in America want to reach across the ocean to help. Lowery is no stranger to South Africa, its people or their struggle. Chairman of the Black Leadership Forum, founder and president emeritus of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and chairman of the Georgia Coalition for a People's Agency, the American is also described as a latter generation Martin Luther King. His civil rights leadership began in Alabama nearly 50 years ago when he led the battle for desegregation in buses and other public places.