DA’s Hill-Lewis Wants Cabinet Cut to 15 Departments, Municipal Services Outsourced

Want a salary increase? Hill-Lewis has one condition

Cape Town mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has put a new condition on salary budget requests from the city’s departmental managers: show how artificial intelligence (AI) and automation will be used to improve operations first. The mayor made the comments while speaking at the BizNews Conference on Tuesday, 11 August, where he discussed what he sees as one of the biggest obstacles to turning Cape Town into an AI-enabled city. In reporting on the comments…

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DA’s Hill-Lewis wants Cabinet cut to 15 departments, municipal services outsourced

DA leader and current Cape Town Executive Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has proposed reducing the size of government and outsourcing some municipal services to private companies.

Hill-Lewis wants more AI before approving bigger salary budgets

Compiled by Dylan Bettencourt Cape Town managers seeking bigger salary budgets must show Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis how they are using AI and automation. The city is training senior managers in AI and already uses the technology for traffic cameras and business support. Cape Town managers who want more money for staff salaries must first show how they are using artificial intelligence. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis said he would not consider requests…

DA, MKP in two-horse race for KZN: Hill-Lewis - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Geordin Hill-Lewis says he sees the campaign for the local government elections (LGE) in KwaZulu-Natal in November, as a two-horse race between his party and the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party. Visiting the uMngeni municipality at Howick during a campaign trail, Hill-Lewis pointed out that the MK Party received most of the votes in this municipality during the 2024 general elections. uMngeni became the first DA contr…