Working together, we have laid a firm foundation on which we can build a country in which all may have peace and comfort and contentment. Yet, we also meet at a time when our country is confronted by enormous and severe challenges. Our economy is not growing at the level that we want it to grow. In fact, in the last quarter we had negative growth. Not enough jobs are being created in our country. This is a concern that rises above all others. It affects everyone. It affects every household. It affects you, the young man who lives - eMzimhlope - in Soweto, out of school five years now and still not employed. It impacts on the single mother from Delft here in the Western Cape, whose grant supports not just herself but her grandchildren too. It also hurts the worker in Nelson Mandela Bay, who, despite earning a salary, is struggling to make ends meet. It is hard for the young student from the Sol Plaatje University in the Northern Cape, who must rely on a thin stipend from his parents to feed himself. The lived reality of our people is exactly what I have described.