With a week to the local government elections, political parties are gearing up to make sure they win. The DA councillor in Durban’s ward 26 is 26-year-old Nicole Graham, who’s running in a ward that’s different to the one in which she is currently a councillor. The Daily Vox spoke to her to find out how she’s preparing for the upcoming elections. I first got interested in politics when I was 16, and in varsity is when I started engaging in student politics. I am also a law student at UNISA and this takes up much of my time, I recently wrote exams and it has proven to be very hectic around election times.