South Africa’s Second-Biggest Party Elects Cape Town Mayor Hill-Lewis as Leader

(AFP) — South Africa’s second-largest party, the Democratic Alliance, elected Cape Town’s mayor Sunday to lead it into the 2029 national polls, stepping up its drive to take votes away from the faltering ANC.

The election of Geordin Hill-Lewis, 39, marks a reset for the centre-right DA that entered a multi-party coalition government in 2024 when the African National Congress (ANC) lost its majority.

Hill-Lewis, the DA’s likely presidential contender, said his mission was to grow the party into the largest in South Africa.

Among the country’s many crises, his priority was to end lawlessness and crime.

“We must take back our streets,” he said. “We…

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