WEBVTT 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:16.055 So, I'm here to recruit you. 00:00:16.055 --> 00:00:17.555 (Laughter) 00:00:17.555 --> 00:00:21.117 But not in the sense that you're thinking. I know I'm a politician. 00:00:21.710 --> 00:00:24.189 I'll save that for another day. 00:00:24.189 --> 00:00:26.460 I'm here to try and encourage you 00:00:26.460 --> 00:00:29.189 to take up a leadership role in public service 00:00:29.189 --> 00:00:31.950 in your country and on your continent. 00:00:33.333 --> 00:00:35.380 I'm here to convince you 00:00:35.380 --> 00:00:38.390 that your country and your continent need you - 00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:43.097 not later, not when you're older and more experienced, but now - 00:00:45.199 --> 00:00:47.798 and that whether you realize it or not, 00:00:47.798 --> 00:00:51.440 your country's politics are going to be doomed to fail 00:00:51.440 --> 00:00:55.489 unless you're willing to get involved right now. 00:00:56.279 --> 00:00:59.450 So my recruitment pitch comes with a single disclaimer: 00:00:59.450 --> 00:01:02.645 I resigned from public office 18 months ago. 00:01:02.645 --> 00:01:04.120 (Laughter) 00:01:04.120 --> 00:01:06.989 I did it in order to take stock of my time in office, 00:01:06.989 --> 00:01:09.074 to think about the work that I had done, 00:01:09.074 --> 00:01:12.550 to capacitate myself with skills, knowledge, contacts, 00:01:12.550 --> 00:01:14.660 allies and experiences, 00:01:14.660 --> 00:01:18.820 and to find a little bit of personal and professional perspective. 00:01:18.820 --> 00:01:22.779 It's one of the best decisions I think I've ever made. 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:27.840 I imagine that some time during the next 18 minutes while I'm pitching you, 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:29.150 you're going to think, 00:01:29.150 --> 00:01:32.250 "Yeah, it's easy for you to say I should go into public service. 00:01:32.250 --> 00:01:34.600 You've already done it and you've left." 00:01:34.600 --> 00:01:36.520 But I hope I'll be able to convince you 00:01:36.520 --> 00:01:41.370 that, in fact, we all find ourselves in exactly the same boat right now. 00:01:41.909 --> 00:01:45.269 Because being outside of politics for 18 months 00:01:45.269 --> 00:01:48.027 has reminded me just how important it is 00:01:48.408 --> 00:01:51.019 and just how much the political landscapes 00:01:51.019 --> 00:01:54.609 in my country and in your countries and on our continent 00:01:54.609 --> 00:01:59.765 are truly lacking in good leadership and political talent. 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:03.109 So, I want to make a deal with you. 00:02:03.609 --> 00:02:07.760 I'm not going to return to active politics unless you come with me. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.340 (Laughter) 00:02:09.340 --> 00:02:11.170 I'm not going to do it alone. 00:02:12.300 --> 00:02:17.570 I won't go back unless I can convince smart, entrepreneurial, highly skilled, 00:02:17.570 --> 00:02:20.760 talented, experienced young Africans like yourselves 00:02:20.760 --> 00:02:23.490 and millions more like you across the continent, 00:02:23.490 --> 00:02:25.810 that the best chance that our countries have, 00:02:26.042 --> 00:02:28.800 not just for survival but for lasting prosperity, 00:02:29.044 --> 00:02:32.051 is if our most talented citizens step forward 00:02:32.051 --> 00:02:34.539 and make themselves available, 00:02:34.539 --> 00:02:38.602 either for political party, leadership or for public service and government. 00:02:39.230 --> 00:02:41.950 So over the next 16-or-so minutes that are remaining, 00:02:41.950 --> 00:02:44.890 I'm going to alternately flatter you, as I just have, 00:02:44.890 --> 00:02:45.780 (Laughter) 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:47.069 I'm going to challenge you, 00:02:47.069 --> 00:02:49.222 I'm going to talk to you about my experiences, 00:02:49.222 --> 00:02:51.390 about a couple of facts and figures; 00:02:51.783 --> 00:02:53.730 I may even frighten you a little bit. 00:02:53.730 --> 00:02:55.710 And it'll be entirely worth it 00:02:55.710 --> 00:02:59.400 if that fear convinces you of the urgency of the point in history 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.700 that we find ourselves in today. 00:03:02.260 --> 00:03:05.804 Everything I say today will be in service of a single objective: 00:03:05.804 --> 00:03:10.480 convincing you, showing you, that your countries need you; 00:03:11.210 --> 00:03:14.469 that Africa's prosperity may depend on many things - 00:03:14.469 --> 00:03:17.519 entrepreneurialism, industrial development, 00:03:17.539 --> 00:03:19.570 health reform, social upliftment - 00:03:19.570 --> 00:03:21.548 but that all of these hinge 00:03:21.548 --> 00:03:25.899 upon the success of politics and government in our countries. 00:03:26.559 --> 00:03:29.811 I can't begin a talk about public service, of course, 00:03:29.811 --> 00:03:33.240 without honoring my former president Nelson Mandela, 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:35.670 the father of democratic South Africa. 00:03:35.670 --> 00:03:38.882 (Cheers) (Applause) 00:03:40.949 --> 00:03:45.619 President Mandela passed away on this day in 2013. 00:03:46.158 --> 00:03:48.549 I really believe that when the people of my country 00:03:48.549 --> 00:03:51.269 look back on the day that he passed away, 00:03:51.269 --> 00:03:55.090 it'll be seen as an inflection point in South Africa's history. 00:03:55.770 --> 00:04:00.560 The day we decided whether we could, indeed, go it alone without him. 00:04:01.740 --> 00:04:03.579 What's written in those history books 00:04:03.579 --> 00:04:06.269 will depend entirely on whether this generation, 00:04:06.269 --> 00:04:08.879 which includes all of you sitting in this room, 00:04:09.462 --> 00:04:11.659 recognizes that the time has come for us 00:04:11.659 --> 00:04:15.072 to take up the work that President Mandela left for us, 00:04:15.072 --> 00:04:20.009 before that work is captured by people who would use power and politics 00:04:20.009 --> 00:04:22.690 for empty vanity and personal gain. 00:04:23.980 --> 00:04:25.229 I'm referring, of course, 00:04:25.229 --> 00:04:28.499 to the young man who was here in London this very past week. 00:04:29.674 --> 00:04:35.050 Defiling the name of the visionary leader, the intellectual and political strategist, 00:04:35.050 --> 00:04:38.510 the formidable athlete, the Prince of the Abathembu nation 00:04:38.510 --> 00:04:42.100 who served as a South Africa's first democratic president. 00:04:42.680 --> 00:04:45.820 The young man who tried to taint President Mandela's legacy 00:04:45.820 --> 00:04:48.770 with a few throwaway lines, 00:04:48.770 --> 00:04:52.390 all in service of getting cheap headlines, which he got. 00:04:52.708 --> 00:04:56.618 People like this, who we leave public service to 00:04:56.618 --> 00:04:59.749 when we stay out of the fray of public service, 00:04:59.749 --> 00:05:04.740 are the reason your country and my country needs you and needs us. 00:05:05.370 --> 00:05:06.840 So let us begin. 00:05:07.640 --> 00:05:10.319 I want to first talk to you about the African diaspora. 00:05:10.510 --> 00:05:12.939 You may have heard about a study in 2013 00:05:13.350 --> 00:05:15.154 that revealed 00:05:15.154 --> 00:05:20.414 that cash transfers from Africans living outside of the continent 00:05:20.731 --> 00:05:26.037 have now begun to exceed donor aid from foreign countries into Africa. 00:05:26.037 --> 00:05:28.410 (Applause) 00:05:29.245 --> 00:05:33.200 In 2012, total remittances to Africa stood at 60 billion dollars 00:05:33.200 --> 00:05:34.337 while in the same year, 00:05:34.337 --> 00:05:36.930 official development aid to Sub-Saharan Africa 00:05:36.930 --> 00:05:40.780 totalled 44.6 billion by comparison. 00:05:41.020 --> 00:05:43.180 Now, this got me thinking. 00:05:44.099 --> 00:05:47.844 If we can do such great work with our money from outside of Africa, 00:05:47.844 --> 00:05:51.310 what can we do with our skills, our talent, our experiences, 00:05:51.310 --> 00:05:55.645 our education and our passion for our countries and for our continent? 00:05:56.300 --> 00:05:59.020 I've spent the past semester at the Harvard Kennedy School 00:05:59.020 --> 00:06:01.080 as a fellow at the Institute of Politics. 00:06:01.090 --> 00:06:03.520 I ran a seminar which was called 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:06.640 "How to build a democracy? Lessons from South Africa." 00:06:06.640 --> 00:06:09.210 It was also about Zimbabwe and Malawi. 00:06:09.210 --> 00:06:10.313 And it wasn't intended 00:06:10.313 --> 00:06:13.420 to make it seem like we got everything right in South Africa, 00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:15.520 but it was asking the critical question: 00:06:15.520 --> 00:06:17.160 Now that we have this legacy 00:06:17.160 --> 00:06:19.480 of peaceful transition, of constitutionalism, 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:21.443 of difficult negotiations, 00:06:21.443 --> 00:06:23.940 which were very, very difficultly gotten, 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:27.470 are we going to be successful in entrenching that democracy 00:06:27.470 --> 00:06:29.900 and making it last into the future? 00:06:30.181 --> 00:06:33.180 Now, one of the benefits of being an African 00:06:33.829 --> 00:06:36.050 in an academic setting like New England 00:06:36.050 --> 00:06:38.760 is that other African students reach out to you, 00:06:38.760 --> 00:06:40.220 they want to talk to you, 00:06:40.220 --> 00:06:43.970 and many of them express to you their desire to enter public service. 00:06:44.440 --> 00:06:48.370 So I had students knocking down my door, wanting to talk to me in office hours 00:06:48.370 --> 00:06:50.780 about the fact that they have Ghanean parents 00:06:50.780 --> 00:06:52.170 but they were born in Texas. 00:06:52.170 --> 00:06:54.270 They really wanted to give back to Ghana, 00:06:54.270 --> 00:06:56.230 but they're afraid that if they go home, 00:06:56.230 --> 00:06:58.580 nobody will take them seriously as real Africans. 00:06:58.760 --> 00:07:01.530 I had students who said they had families, 00:07:01.898 --> 00:07:04.830 wives, children, husbands, partners to take care of, 00:07:04.830 --> 00:07:07.610 perhaps they were better off staying in the United States 00:07:07.610 --> 00:07:09.730 and providing for their families back home 00:07:09.730 --> 00:07:12.537 rather than going back and getting into public service. 00:07:14.822 --> 00:07:18.430 This got me thinking about the question of skills remittance, 00:07:18.430 --> 00:07:22.720 of talent remittance, of social and political remittance. 00:07:23.316 --> 00:07:25.520 If these young people have the passion 00:07:25.795 --> 00:07:28.843 to give back to their communities monetarily, 00:07:29.198 --> 00:07:31.983 imagine how different our politics would be 00:07:31.983 --> 00:07:35.103 if those same skills, influence, leadership, talent 00:07:35.103 --> 00:07:38.100 were put at work in service of the public good. 00:07:38.620 --> 00:07:40.842 And that includes all of you in this room 00:07:40.842 --> 00:07:43.360 because many of you are also part of the diaspora. 00:07:44.090 --> 00:07:45.690 I'm here to recruit you. 00:07:45.690 --> 00:07:47.749 I'm here to make a deal with you. 00:07:48.103 --> 00:07:51.610 I'm not going back unless I take you with me. 00:07:51.610 --> 00:07:52.875 (Laugther) 00:07:53.390 --> 00:07:57.860 Now, I know that most of you, if not the vast majority of you, 00:07:58.211 --> 00:08:02.950 are completely fed up, turned off, discouraged, disgusted by politics, 00:08:02.950 --> 00:08:05.930 either in your country, in this country, all over the world. 00:08:06.630 --> 00:08:11.000 Perhaps you are discouraged by the fact that governments are slow to deliver. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:12.400 Perhaps they're inefficient. 00:08:12.400 --> 00:08:15.269 Perhaps they are thoroughly corrupt and rotten to the core. 00:08:15.269 --> 00:08:18.690 Perhaps they're responsible for conflicts that have claimed lives 00:08:18.690 --> 00:08:22.669 and livelihoods in the countries from which you come. 00:08:22.669 --> 00:08:24.959 So why would you sink your time and your energies 00:08:24.959 --> 00:08:27.010 into such a compromised system? 00:08:27.178 --> 00:08:28.806 One of the most powerful analyses 00:08:28.806 --> 00:08:32.368 of conflict, inefficiency, corruption, stagnation 00:08:32.368 --> 00:08:35.499 which I've encountered in recent months 00:08:35.499 --> 00:08:37.858 is the question of a political economy. 00:08:38.169 --> 00:08:41.969 There is a reason that our governments are not performing as they should. 00:08:42.620 --> 00:08:45.409 It's not just because of a failure within the system. 00:08:45.409 --> 00:08:49.550 Consider the political economy of conflict and corruption in your own country. 00:08:49.550 --> 00:08:51.949 Why is it so difficult to overcome? 00:08:51.949 --> 00:08:55.020 Who is making money or amassing power 00:08:55.020 --> 00:08:57.620 because things don't work the way they should? 00:08:57.934 --> 00:08:59.820 Where does the back stop? 00:08:59.820 --> 00:09:03.450 Who has an incentive to keep the system dysfunctional? 00:09:03.787 --> 00:09:05.720 And how can we work together 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:08.980 to overcome their total infection of the system, 00:09:08.980 --> 00:09:11.540 to ensure that we don't lose our grip 00:09:11.540 --> 00:09:13.810 on the very principle of democratic governance? 00:09:14.370 --> 00:09:16.050 The answer, I'm afraid, 00:09:16.050 --> 00:09:18.535 because you were born into this political time, 00:09:18.834 --> 00:09:20.710 is simply by taking over - 00:09:20.710 --> 00:09:22.550 you have to get involved. 00:09:22.851 --> 00:09:24.370 There's no way around it. 00:09:24.589 --> 00:09:26.710 You have to join political organizations 00:09:26.710 --> 00:09:30.980 in numbers large enough to influence change from within. 00:09:31.305 --> 00:09:34.400 You have to actively seek to take up a leadership role 00:09:34.400 --> 00:09:37.723 in government, in the state, in the public service 00:09:37.723 --> 00:09:42.329 and deftly but decisively move its priorities to where they should be: 00:09:42.691 --> 00:09:47.030 not in the service of people who want to amass power and money for themselves, 00:09:47.030 --> 00:09:50.650 but to better the lives of the highest number of people. 00:09:51.730 --> 00:09:53.569 There will always be government, 00:09:53.569 --> 00:09:55.650 whether we like it or not, 00:09:55.650 --> 00:09:57.890 whether we find it palatable or not. 00:09:58.097 --> 00:10:00.440 But there won't always be democracy. 00:10:00.715 --> 00:10:02.380 If we ignore politics, 00:10:02.380 --> 00:10:05.060 the people who have been quietly lobbying our governments 00:10:05.060 --> 00:10:07.989 to prioritize development ahead of democracy, 00:10:08.234 --> 00:10:10.581 these are the people who will have their way, 00:10:10.581 --> 00:10:15.359 and the systems that we now take for granted will dissolve before our eyes. 00:10:16.019 --> 00:10:20.579 When I was campaigning in South Africa last year for the 2014 general election, 00:10:20.579 --> 00:10:23.589 the voter registration numbers looked a little bit like this, 00:10:23.589 --> 00:10:25.540 six months before the election: 00:10:25.540 --> 00:10:29.750 23% of potential voters in the 18-to-19-year-old age group 00:10:30.090 --> 00:10:31.900 were registered to vote. 00:10:32.146 --> 00:10:37.080 In the age group 20 to 29 years old, 55% were registered. 00:10:37.661 --> 00:10:42.500 And from 30 upwards, the number varied from 79 to 100%; 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:47.000 in fact, there were more people aged 80 and over who were registered 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.969 than were in the census numbers in South Africa. 00:10:50.119 --> 00:10:51.645 Imagine that. 00:10:52.354 --> 00:10:57.730 Fully 100% of people over a certain age 00:10:57.730 --> 00:11:00.430 consider voting to be an indispensable right, 00:11:00.430 --> 00:11:02.130 21 years into democracy, 00:11:02.130 --> 00:11:06.230 and do not shirk their responsibility to register and turn out at the polls. 00:11:06.940 --> 00:11:09.120 But in the 18-to-19-year-old age group - 00:11:09.498 --> 00:11:12.510 and we must remember 19 is the average age on our continent; 00:11:12.510 --> 00:11:14.900 26 is the average age in South Africa - 00:11:14.900 --> 00:11:17.680 the number is 23% to 55%. 00:11:17.680 --> 00:11:20.229 What's the political economy of voter apathy? 00:11:20.229 --> 00:11:22.590 Who benefits when we stay out of the system? 00:11:22.838 --> 00:11:24.915 Who gets to keep the status quo 00:11:24.915 --> 00:11:27.240 and empower themselves and enrich themselves 00:11:27.240 --> 00:11:31.330 and continue to infect our political system like a cancer. 00:11:32.074 --> 00:11:36.860 Who banks by us continuing with the status quo? 00:11:37.590 --> 00:11:39.779 Now even as I say all of this to you, 00:11:40.050 --> 00:11:43.559 that your country and your continent need you to enter public service, 00:11:43.559 --> 00:11:45.479 I know that if you take up my challenge, 00:11:45.479 --> 00:11:47.990 you're going to face huge amounts of resistance - 00:11:47.990 --> 00:11:51.779 all because of these political economies that I have just described. 00:11:52.310 --> 00:11:53.359 I did. 00:11:53.359 --> 00:11:55.375 I was told that I was too young. 00:11:55.375 --> 00:11:56.810 I was too female. 00:11:56.810 --> 00:11:57.830 (Laughter) 00:11:57.830 --> 00:12:00.890 I didn't have enough experience 00:12:01.219 --> 00:12:04.079 though no one could define what experience was enough. 00:12:04.739 --> 00:12:08.280 I had too much of a white accent; I wasn't a real African. 00:12:09.450 --> 00:12:13.380 I straightened my hair and wore weaves; I wasn't a real African. 00:12:14.040 --> 00:12:15.050 We should be honest 00:12:15.050 --> 00:12:18.330 about the things that hold people back from entering public service - 00:12:18.330 --> 00:12:21.620 humiliation, degradation; it's not an easy road - 00:12:21.868 --> 00:12:24.680 but all of these things should illustrate to you 00:12:24.680 --> 00:12:27.130 the extent to which the status quo is designed 00:12:27.130 --> 00:12:31.880 to enrich and empower a few at the expense of the many, 00:12:32.176 --> 00:12:36.320 and it should impart to you the urgency of you, as a generation, 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.010 of now getting involved in public service 00:12:39.010 --> 00:12:42.000 to change that very culture. 00:12:42.350 --> 00:12:44.360 And if you decide to enter public service, 00:12:44.360 --> 00:12:47.470 you may even be tempted to believe some of these criticisms. 00:12:47.470 --> 00:12:50.680 They're designed to keep you out; that's how gatekeeping works. 00:12:50.680 --> 00:12:52.399 Somebody is benefiting 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:57.230 from the absence of excellence and disruption in politics and government. 00:12:57.630 --> 00:13:00.030 But these are challenges that have to be faced on. 00:13:00.030 --> 00:13:03.740 There is no other route; there is no wishing this away. 00:13:03.740 --> 00:13:08.390 They are the reason that your country and your continent need you. 00:13:10.130 --> 00:13:13.830 We have this thing in politics in Africa; it's called the "big man." 00:13:14.104 --> 00:13:17.610 The cult of personality - we've all heard different terminologies for it. 00:13:18.290 --> 00:13:21.640 In South Africa, in particular, this entails waiting for a great person 00:13:21.640 --> 00:13:23.970 to come and save us from ourselves. 00:13:23.970 --> 00:13:28.740 Currently, we're waiting for Cyril Ramaphosa or Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma 00:13:28.740 --> 00:13:33.370 or [inaudible] to come and save South Africa from itself, 00:13:33.650 --> 00:13:36.680 to save us from the mess that we find ourselves in 00:13:36.680 --> 00:13:39.350 that perhaps another big man put us in. 00:13:40.240 --> 00:13:42.827 But how can a single personality be held responsible 00:13:42.827 --> 00:13:45.510 for building or for running a whole nation? 00:13:45.510 --> 00:13:47.870 And where do we turn when they fail? 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:52.320 If we haven't cultivated any kind of pipeline of energetic, young people 00:13:52.577 --> 00:13:55.570 who wanted to enter public service now or in the future 00:13:55.570 --> 00:13:58.080 and, critically, who can do the job better, 00:13:58.080 --> 00:13:59.918 are we doomed to always have to choose 00:13:59.918 --> 00:14:03.480 between mediocrity and ego, and mediocrity and ego? 00:14:03.480 --> 00:14:04.577 Is that it? 00:14:04.577 --> 00:14:06.940 Is that all our government will ever be? 00:14:07.330 --> 00:14:12.480 Or worse: Are we going to stand by while presidents change constitutions 00:14:12.480 --> 00:14:17.080 so they can serve a third term and a fourth term and a fifth term, 00:14:17.981 --> 00:14:20.990 claiming that three million people signed a petition 00:14:20.990 --> 00:14:23.720 stating that they are the only person who can do the job? 00:14:23.720 --> 00:14:26.180 (Laughter) (Applause) 00:14:26.180 --> 00:14:27.930 Is that what we'll do? 00:14:30.800 --> 00:14:32.040 Now, there's a new energy 00:14:32.040 --> 00:14:35.380 around entrepreneurism and innovation and growth 00:14:35.380 --> 00:14:36.890 in Africa today. 00:14:37.250 --> 00:14:41.010 But that energy isn't going to translate into lasting prosperity 00:14:41.010 --> 00:14:44.220 unless we get our politics right. 00:14:44.630 --> 00:14:47.660 Political leaders who are gatekeepers of the status quo 00:14:47.825 --> 00:14:51.590 will claim that any success is their success. 00:14:51.907 --> 00:14:53.404 They'll centralize power, 00:14:53.404 --> 00:14:55.750 and they'll demand that we all be grateful 00:14:55.750 --> 00:14:57.913 for those little green shoots of achievement, 00:14:57.913 --> 00:15:00.608 and then they'll claim that nobody else can do the job. 00:15:00.620 --> 00:15:05.660 They'll argue that development must come first, freedom can come later, 00:15:06.480 --> 00:15:10.350 and that they are the best benevolent dictator to do the job. 00:15:11.050 --> 00:15:15.010 They'll take your political voice from you when times are a little bit good, 00:15:15.285 --> 00:15:19.150 and when times go bad, they will refuse to give it back. 00:15:20.063 --> 00:15:22.796 There is no prosperity for our continent 00:15:22.796 --> 00:15:28.060 without a vibrant, diverse, and truly competitive politics, 00:15:28.478 --> 00:15:33.630 founded upon excellence, transparency and commitment to the public good. 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:36.918 Our politics will not have any of these qualities 00:15:36.918 --> 00:15:40.588 unless talented, young people, the best people, 00:15:40.588 --> 00:15:45.644 step forward at this moment in Africa's history, 00:15:45.644 --> 00:15:47.720 when we're emerging from that stereotype 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:51.003 of the dark continent, the hopeless continent, 00:15:51.003 --> 00:15:53.900 and commit themselves to public service. 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.350 We must run for office. 00:15:56.549 --> 00:15:58.631 We must work in the civil service. 00:15:58.728 --> 00:16:01.420 We must disrupt the political status quo. 00:16:01.548 --> 00:16:04.280 We must prevent the rush to the bottom. 00:16:05.368 --> 00:16:08.690 You really are the ones that you have been waiting for. 00:16:08.988 --> 00:16:12.640 There are no great saviors waiting somewhere in the wings 00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:15.350 to save us from future problems. 00:16:16.140 --> 00:16:20.620 There's nobody who is waiting in the wings to come and save us from ourselves; 00:16:20.620 --> 00:16:22.060 there's just us. 00:16:22.930 --> 00:16:25.010 And I'm not going back without you. 00:16:25.010 --> 00:16:26.160 (Laughter) 00:16:26.160 --> 00:16:28.330 So, will you take up the challenge? 00:16:28.330 --> 00:16:29.350 Thank you. 00:16:29.350 --> 00:16:31.790 (Cheers) (Applause)