By the end of November, DA MP Geordin Hill-Lewis will be sworn in as Cape Town’s mayor – the youngest mayor in the city’s history at 34.
Geordin Hill-Lewis said he was “very excited” about becoming Cape Town’s mayor. “There’s two weeks to go before the inauguration and before council starts, so there’s time to do preparation – there’s some time to catch up on sleep and there’s some time to really focus on priorities,” he told journalists this week.
At 34, Hill-Lewis, a resident of Edgemead in the city’s northern suburbs, will become the city’s youngest mayor to date, according to the DA. He might be only 34, but Hill-Lewis is a long-serving member of the DA, having been part of the first DA Students Organisation at UCT. He has also worked as chief of staff to Zille, a former Cape Town mayor and current DA chairperson. Hill-Lewis has been a DA MP since 2011, sitting on the oversight committees of public service and administration and trade and industry. In 2019, he became the DA’s shadow minister of finance.
In Parliament, Hill-Lewis worked under DA parliamentary leaders Athol Trollip and Lindiwe Mazibuko, and party leader Mmusi Maimane.
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