News24 | At 31, Lwazi Pakade could become the ANC’s youngest Cape Town mayoral candidate 

​He became the ANC’s youngest ward councillor in Cape Town after winning a public vote ahead of the 2021 local government elections. Four years later, 31-year-old Lwazi Pakade is now in the running to become the party’s youngest mayoral candidate as the ANC searches for a leader capable of reversing years of electoral decline in the city.