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Meet New York City’s likely next mayor — with a South African connection | SA News

New York City’s probable next mayor will be the first in history to have attended St George’s Grammar School in Cape Town, an Anglican school in Mowbray.

He is being hailed as the potential saviour of left-wing politics in the US — and he spent some of his formative years in Cape Town’s southern suburbs.

Zohran Mamdani (33), who on Tuesday won the race for the Democratic nomination as the mayor of New York City in an extraordinary upset over establishment politicians, was raised in Uganda and South Africa before his parents moved to the US.

Mamdani’s father is well-known Ugandan academic Mahmood Mamdani, who arrived…

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