Mayor of Cape Town | |
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Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Cape Town City Council |
Term length | Five years; renewable once consecutively |
Inaugural holder | Michiel van Breda |
Formation | 1840 |
Website | Official Website |
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The mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality. In the past, the position of mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role. The current mayor is Geordin Hill-Lewis of the Democratic Alliance (DA).
This is a list of mayors of Cape Town in South Africa:
Name and Image | Term of office | Political party | ||
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December 2000 | November 2001 | Democratic Alliance | ||
Gerald Morkel | December 2001 | October 2002 | Democratic Alliance | |
October 2002 | March 2006 | African National Congress | ||
March 2006 | April 2009 | Democratic Alliance | ||
Grant Haskin (acting) | April 2009 | May 2009 | African Christian Democratic Party | |
May 2009 | May 2011 | Democratic Alliance | ||
June 2011 | October 2018 | Democratic Alliance | ||
Ian Neilson (acting) | May 2018 October 2018 | May 2018 November 2018 | Democratic Alliance | |
November 2018 | October 2021 | Democratic Alliance | ||
November 2021 | Incumbent | Democratic Alliance |
Name | Term of office | Annotation | |
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1840 | 1844 | First Chairman of the Cape Town Municipality. [3] | |
J.J.L. Smuts | 1844 | 1848 | |
1848 | 1860 | ||
Dirk Gysbert van Breda | 1860 | 1860 | First Term |
Gilles J. de Korte | 1860 | 1862 | First Term |
W. Herman | 1862 | 1863 | |
Thomas Watson | 1863 | 1863 | |
Joseph Barry | 1863 | 1865 | |
Dirk Gysbert van Breda | 1865 | 1866 | Second Term |
Gilles J. De Korte | 1866 | 1871 | Second term. Title changed from "chairman" to "mayor" in 1867. |
Philip Stigant | 1871 | 1872 | First Term |
Gilles J. de Korte | 1872 | 1874 | Third term |
Philip Stigant | 1874 | 1875 | Second term |
P.U. Leibbrandt | 1875 | 1876 | |
Charles Lewis | 1876 | 1877 | First term |
John Philip | 1877 | 1878 | |
Jan Christoffel Hofmeyr | 1878 | 1879 | |
Petrus Kotzé | 1879 | 1881 | |
William Fleming | 1881 | 1883 | |
Charles Lewis | 1883 | 1884 | Second term |
Philip Stigant | 1884 | 1885 | Third term |
Thomas Inglesby | 1885 | 1886 | Former honorary Colonel of the Cape Field Regiment [4] |
John Woodhead | 1886 | 1887 | First term |
Thomas O'Reilly | 1887 | 1888 | First Term |
John Woodhead | 1888 | 1889 | Second Term |
David Christiaan de Waal | 1880 | 1890 | |
David Graaff | 1890 | 1892 | Later Minister of Public Works and Finance. [5] |
Johan Mocke | 1892 | 1893 | |
John Woodhead | 1893 | 1894 | Third term |
George Smart | 1894 | 1895 | |
James Attwell | 1895 | 1896 | |
John Woodhead | 1896 | 1897 | Fourth term |
Herman Boalch | 1897 | 1898 | Died in office |
Thomas Ball | 1898 | 1900 | |
Thomas O'Reilly | 1900 | 1901 | Second term |
William Thorne | 1901 | 1904 | |
Hyman Liberman | 1904 | 1907 | |
William Duncan Baxter [6] | 1907 | 1908 | |
Frank Smith | 1908 | 1912 |
Name | Term of office | Annotation | |
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Frank Smith | 1908 | 1912 | |
Harry Hands [7] | 1912 | 1913 | First term |
John Parker | 1913 | 1915 | First Mayor of "Greater" Cape Town after surrounding municipalities had been incorporated into the city. |
Harry Hands | 1915 | 1918 | Second term |
William J. Thorne | 1918 | 1920 | |
William Gardener | 1920 | 1922 | |
Ryno J. Verster | 1922 | 1925 | |
William Fish | 1925 | 1927 | |
Andrew Reid | 1927 | 1929 | |
Alfred Lewis | 1929 | 1931 | |
Harry Stephan | 1931 | 1933 | |
Louis Gradner | 1933 | 1935 | |
James Low | 1935 | 1937 | |
W.C. Foster | 1937 | 1939 | |
Wilfred Brinton | 1939 | 1941 | |
Walter James | 1941 | 1943 | |
Ernest Nyman | 1943 | 1945 | |
Abe Bloomberg | 1945 | 1947 | |
Herbert Gearing | 1947 | 1949 | |
Charles Booth | 1949 | 1951 | |
Fritz Sonnenberg | 1951 | 1953 | |
Arthur Keen | 1953 | 1955 | |
Pieter Wolmarans | 1955 | 1957 | |
John Orville Billingham | 1957 | 1959 | |
Joyce Newton-Thompson | 1959 | 1961 | First female mayor |
Name | Term of office | |
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Alfred Honikman | 1961 | 1963 |
William Peters | 1963 | 1965 |
Walter Gradner | 1965 | 1967 |
Gerald Ferry | 1967 | 1969 |
Jan Dommisse | 1969 | 1971 |
Richard Friedlander | 1971 | 1973 |
David Bloomberg | 1973 | 1975 |
John Tyers | 1975 | 1977 |
Edward Mauerberger | 1977 | 1979 |
Louis Kreiner | 1979 | 1981 |
M.J. Van Zyl | 1981 | 1983 |
Sol Kreiner | 1983 | 1985 |
Leon Markovitz | 1985 | 1987 |
Peter Muller | 1987 | 1989 |
Gordon Oliver [8] [9] | 1989 | 1991 |
Frank Van der Velde | 1991 | 1993 |
Clive Keegan | 1993 | 1993 |
Patricia Sulcas Kreiner | 1993 | 1995 |
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