when you delivered that lecture back in the university of western cape and some of the audience said every generation has its mission, yours was political liberation, ours is economic liberation. and it is fantastic to hear that challenge. i have spent a lot of time involved now and what is pompously called intergenerational discourse, and it's terrific. those young people, they like to see that i have got some spirit and some stories to tell, and i like the passion, the eagerness, the idealism, the exquisite and beautiful use of language. the country can only benefit when people are thinking, even if the thought is sometimes as cheeky and irreverent as my thought was at that age. it stirs up the country. there is a harsh edge to this. it is the economic reality in which many south africans are living. many of those young people you are speaking to, their families, that is what they have grown up with. whatever the promise of a multiracial south africa in which black south africans and coloured south africans took their place as equal citizens with white south africans, the economic