No more loadshedding for Cape Town – DA Mayoral candidate Geordin Hill-Lewis explains how

Elections are traditionally the time that politicians, some who are seldom seen outside their big cars with tinted windows, get outside to be seen as leaders who are in tune with the electorate. In other countries, kissing a couple of babies and knocking on doors would do it but in South Africa where the problems tend be more pressing, it takes more. The issue of Afrikaans as an indigenous language has even prompted President Cyril Ramaphosa to speak Afrikaans to communities in the Cape, which has led to many internet memes. Finding issues that the electorate feel passionate about and are touching their lives every day, is normally a sure way of hitting the ball out of the park and in South Africa the most pressing issue for a local government election, is Eskom and loadshedding. To say that it is the Achilles heel of the ANC is an understatement, it is more like a giant size piñata that opposition parties can shoot with a laser gun without a blindfold. And the DA’s young Cape Town mayoral candidate has come up with a humdinger – Geordin Hill-Lewis is running on the promise of no more loadshedding for Cape Town. He explained to Alec Hogg how he would achieve it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices