Episode description

Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis, the Mayor of Cape Town, is our first guest on the Visionary City Leader Show. We discuss what is means to be a visionary city leader, his 1st 100 days in office, how he’ll define success over his 5 year term, the importance of partnerships in solving complex problems, future-proofing cape town, how the role of the mayor has changed in recent times, and much more.

This episode is brought to you in partnership with GPA GROUP

Listen or watch to understand:

• Major highlights from his 1st 100 days in office and what het did not get too.
• Future thinking.
• How he managed the complexity of the transition from the national sphere of government to the municipal.
• How important partnerships are in ending load shedding, getting rail to work and more.
• The key characteristics of a visionary city leader.
• How he will define success over the course of 5 years.
• How the role of an executive mayor has changed especially since covid, and how he prioritises what is done first.
• The City’s resilience and future planing directorate and what it is trying to achieve.
• What spatial transformation means to him as an individual, as a leader and what it implies to the city.
• Tensions and compromises he anticipates (on spatial transformation) and how he will tackle them differently from his predecessors?
• What his diary holds for the coming week.

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