SA’s City of Hope - Mayor GHL on the rise and rise of Cape Town
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- In December, 317,000 international visitors landed in Cape Town, a record for a single month. The multiplier effect on the local economy of so many visitors spending hard currency is enormous, supporting a virtuous cycle confirming good governance’s dividend. The city’s executive mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis (37), fresh from a mini-speaking tour abroad at the invitation of his counterparts in New York and London, has just unveiled another initiative to support a campaign promise of making the city load-shedding free by 2026. The progress on electricity is one of numerous ways SA’s “City of Hope” has become a template for other Metros. GHL reckons it all begins with financial stability. He spoke to BizNews editor Alec Hogg.
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Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:28 - Do you learn much from your visits to other mayors?
02:28 - Record high amount of foreign visitors this December
04:06 - What is the process of increasing international flights to CPT’s airport?
06:01 - Threats of making the Western Cape ungovernable
08:32 - Technologies ability to aid in governing
12:08 - Update on making CPT load shedding free
15:47 - Can other cities in SA see the same results from your approach
18:10 - How long would that take?
18:37 - Conclusion
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SA this man gives me hope, respect him beyond, thank you. DO you think your Mayor inJoburg actually understands what this man is telling us? 😢😢
It's so good to see some success in SA. A lot of my school friends realised years ago that victim mentality keeps you back and they are doing really well in SA. I also have some friends with a victim mentality (blaming white people for everything and nothing). Those guys, (3 of them) are struggling like hell. I have seen it first hand that just a realistic look at life can change it.
if anyone from the City of CT / DA reads these comments: A smart way to actually get these messages out there (like the automated solar system) is to have billboards up across town, at bus stops etc. so that people know.
Same with crime - the residents want to know & see what initiatives you're taking. You shouldn't be scared to brag about your successes to the public at large
Geordin your citizens value what you are doing!
You do wonder, where in the world would the ruling party promise to make a province ungovernable. Wtf
Very good journalism Alec
Well done to the mayor👏👏
Well done, Mayor; I hope others learn how to improve the country's value and attract investment eventually creating more and more jobs for the people of South Africa. also thank you for maintaining infrastructure and controlling shanties.
The many foreign visitors i meet in Cape Town would give anything to be able to live here...
I don’t think so, all the foreigners question safety in South Africa.
I listen to the reality of the challenges but also the drive to make things better for everyone.
It would be great to have adult education programs too, to help those who struggle with work opportunities or business creation can have opportunities.
People need to help themselves
DA all the way!!
For white people, not for the rest of us.
Whilst I love living in CT, and I am sure the mayor has done well, I am amazed that no critical questions are raised. What about vagrants (petty crimes which follow them) around Castle, ASB?
Agreed! The vagrant problem, especially the drug smugglers and users here in Mowbray and Observatory, is causing a lot of problems. Shacks are allowed to be erected at the station and on pavements. We don't even bother reporting to the police any more: they are toothless, useless and corrupt. When they do go on 'raids', they are brutal and violent.
This is a propaganda platform. Do not expect any tough questions
Good to see Cape Town going from strength to strength with such a great leader. The only thing slowing Cape Town down is that certain things like its Ports, Rail, Electricity are still controlled by the ANC !
Love this man
Gives one hope
He is getting things done
ANC just brings race into things and only knows how to destroy what's worse are the people who vote for the ANC
Thank the Lord the DA have Governed so immaculately in the Cape... We want to semigrate urgently. From Kzn and this place is badly run. The roads are a clear sign of that. Go Cape go for it. The rest of SA under any other party will keep going backwards. 😎
Wow 🤙
The Lavender Hills..Parkwood..Lunga and other areas that still seem or still have strong handcuffs to the apartheid times. Although there is now major gang dominance in these areas and others....even with SAP and City policing..these areas still seem or are lost to the City. I need to hear and see programs that capture the youngsters of these places in a positive and viable way. We Just Cannot Lose anyone of them...they are also the Future of Cape Town. Without them .we are nothing!! Please Mayor J.. go in there and make them...Cape Town. Then we Will have a Great Cape Town.
It would be great if GHL could give some of his focus to towns like Somerset West that form part of the city of Cape Town, not just the city bowl and surrounds.
Well done Gordon. Keep up the hard work. Copy Cat from international success is going to a big win for you. The upcoming eye in the sky will sort out fire lighters and crime big time.. I am proud to be a Citizan of CT
Hi BizNews, I was really interested in your interview with the Cape Town mayor. I used to work at Eskom, starting in 1978 for a period of some 20 years. My career in Eskom was one of those strange exciting paths, but something I have always wondered about is why haven't the municipalities started introducing small power stations similar to the 2 that were in the Cape region in the 70's
These stations were created as peak period back up units and were quite simple as they were built with the power being generated by two aircraft jet engines. The effect that their power made to the Cape region was amazing. I remember visiting one of the stations with an operator at about 16h00 when the power system started going into a peak period and it was incredible how he started the two units and within a few minutes the peak had been leveled.
I don't understand why Eskom or the municipalities haven't introduced this as a form of help. Regard, Mike.
Thumbs up for Mayor GHL !!!!!!
Great job, but be aware that Joburg and subsequently Durban were once on the same growth trajectory and more desirable than any city in the country. Therefore, learn from these cities mistakes as much as you can.
Something the city/mayor/DA needs to really think hard about is:
1. How can it replicate CPT successes at scale to other cites. The fact is, some cities will take decades to have finances CPT has. Therefore, DA needs to arm itself with different strategies for different contexts to achieve similar/better success.
2. Where has/is CPT failed and what can we learn. This is what is often missing in the conversation about CPT. And quite frankly CPT should not be ashamed to chat about this considering it’s doing better than other cities in a number of indicators.
3. Learn to contextualise your campaigns, SA is diverse and this cannot be ignored. However, this should not trump common sense.
Anc and their people received 12 beautiful homelands; strange that for hundreds of years these kings and their people still live off SA taxpayers and grants and never build one city; the settlers bought their land and started creating jobs by building cities and take care of it; Anc's recent threats on making western cape ungovernable; these cadres with their mafia mentality; gangsters; syndicates and cartels should be arrested along with Cele; open robbin Island retirement village for the Anc cadres that destroyed SA; terrorists attacks on a daily basis as hamas joined Anc
ANC is a party of parasites
Far better governed Metro, yet most of the informal areas have not seen much of the developments Cape Town has seen. Sad that this not addressed and those people will start vote for PA or even EFF.
Will we be able to access the drone footage?
Likely not
Smart guys
GHL for President.
To think CT and even the whole of the WC is still the best running province of SA yet up till this very day after the ANC messed up basically all the other province they still try their best to get their hold on the WC,why ,why why?????,Shouldn't they atleast be gratefull that atleast ONE PROVINCE is well oiled and try to do likewise to the rest irrespective of which party is in controle?????
GHL for President
It is as if the Western Cape is a different country to the rest of SA, and so it should be. Time for the Western Cape to become independent from the disastrous ANC controlled SA.
Please increase your recording volume, its always very low.
Love the program but Mischief? please do not super-coat the situation in SA.
My mayor
Viva the Mayor, can we not succeed from the parasites 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
This is why the Western Cape needs to secede and become an independent country from the rest of South Africa and its ANC / EFF cadres supporters...leave them to fix what they have destroyed and not the DA.
So what did the other DA colleagues prior to Brink did
All gone under a cloud
my concern is that we become over populated
practically begging DA to send me my ward councillors contact email but emails ignored. Shane Maas.
Our ward councillor in Mowbray also don't answer when contacted and don't seem to be able to effectively fight the vagrant problem.
Unknown sir
Please don't talk about Cape Town in terms of 'brand'
Soon there will by a job vacancy in the presidency are you intrested?GHL
You cannot have one city only in the country that is on the up and up. Here's some reasons:
1. Other economic hubs suffer and as a result the country overall suffers
2. I'm born and bred in Cape Town but moved out 8 years ago for PE (job reasons). But everytime I go back there more and more people. The city also cannot SPATIALLY grow except up the west coast. Hence it gets DENSER. This leads to congestion like roads. Eg. The M3 on a Sunday afternoon takes 15 minutes from the Southern Suburbs to the CBD. Weekday mornings and afternoons over 2.5 hours. Other routes similar. Most of the roads were designed in areas (like against the mountain) where expansion wider cannot happen.
3. Other reasons.
Now I know on this the DA are helpless because they don't control the national coffers and also (presently) apart from Pretoria not in control of any metro. Which brings me to Pretoria - why are the DA not fixing it up? I've just noticed complaints about it. I haven't been there in 15 years so have no "self experience". In any case.
The story is Cape Town will one day fall completely apart if the other metros are not fixed. (and no - this Cape Independence will never happen without conflict. This secession business goes through there will be conflict and overnight Cape Town will become the worst metro in the country - that's what those secessionists don't understand).
DA only know how to govern the rich areas especially in Cape Town, even rich areas now are struggling with waste removal. Other areas it poor and disgusting. Look what DA did to Pretoria its in shembles and they looted billions. Even PE was once under DA they ruined in my opion the cleanest metro in the country all they do now is complain about the current mayors hair. Dont even want to mention Midvaal
Arsehole, bitter taste comments!!!😂
I live in PTA and the DA is facing huge issues here. Give them time. They cannot fix years and years of mismanagement in a few months
@@yr2180 We also lived in pta for 11 years and have never regretted moving back home!!!
Technology is great but what happens when major crime has been brought under control sometime in the future and the police still have this technology? How will it be used then? If your braai is too smokey or your dog is walking in the street or you walk drunk to the shop, will a drone suddenly pop up and taze you or arrest you?
The criminal syndicate destroy everything,CR said 30 years are not enough
What they want to destroy more or what would beleft of this once beautifull country.,,capetown not the best city on the continent by a mile,it do even better among the top cities around the world
So sick of having Cape Town shuved down our throats.
Can we stop having Western thoughts. We are Africa.
OK U sick of WC Sucess , lets talk abt ANC success. cnt seem to find any.
Best u move to an ANC province u will b begging to come back.
Dear Sue Bishop - So lack of service delivery, crumbling roads, joblessness, homelessness and no or pathetic attempts to stop crime are OK because "we are Africa"? Not sure whether to laugh or cry. You can't tell me too often that I feel safer, and with a sense of positivity here in a progressively managed city. I have lived in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Durban in decades past, and when visiting them now I feel sick at what they have become, but never mind, it's comforting to know "we are Africa".
Such a limiting, fallacy laden argument.
For real? The ONLY successful province and the ONLY successful city you would want to malign? Join the circus in Limpopo or Mpumalanga or Eastern Cape or etc.