{"id":631235,"date":"2026-02-27T10:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=631235"},"modified":"2026-02-27T10:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T08:56:54","slug":"cape-town-mayor-says-he-wants-to-lead-the-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/trending\/631235-cape-town-mayor-says-he-wants-to-lead-the-da.html","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town mayor says he wants to lead the DA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said he\u2019ll stand for election as leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa\u2019s second-biggest political party, a contest he\u2019s widely expected to win.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Steenhuisen has led the DA since 2019, but he announced earlier this month that we won\u2019t stand for another term when the party holds its elective conference in April. Nominations for a successor opened on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will be seeking a specific mandate, a mandate to build a stronger DA,\u201d Hill-Lewis told reporters in Cape Town. \u201cIf we are to build a stronger South Africa, we must have a stronger DA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DA, which garnered 22% support in the last national elections in 2024, is a member of President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s 10-party coalition government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hill-Lewis, 39, has served as mayor of South Africa\u2019s second-biggest city since 2021 and won praise for his management of the tourism and financial-services hub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s said he intends to seek reelection to that post in upcoming municipal elections, a job he can do while concurrently leading the DA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Town Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said he\u2019ll stand for election as leader of the Democratic Alliance, South Africa\u2019s second-biggest political party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341034,"featured_media":564232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40380],"tags":[18909,11631,64107],"class_list":["post-631235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-democratic-alliance-da","tag-geordin-hill-lewis","tag-john-steenhuisen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631241,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631235\/revisions\/631241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}