Mayor of Durban

Below is a list of mayors of Durban, South Africa. In 2000 Durban became the seat of the newly created eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality.

1854–1910

Town Hall, Durban, circa 1891

• George Christopher Cato  [ Wikidata ], 1854–1856 ^[1]
• Edward Snell, 1856, 1867–69 ^[1]
• Savery Pinsent, 1856–57, 1859 ^[1]
• A W Evans, 1857–58 ^[1]
• J R Goodricke, 1857–59
• William Hartley, 1859–60
• Alexander McArthur, 1860–63
• Hugh Gillespie, 1863–65
• John Hunt and R W Tyzack, 1865–66
• Arthur Harvey and John Miller, 1866–67
• William Field, 1869–70 ^[1]
• J D Ballance, 1870 ^[1]
• William Palmer, 1871–72 ^[1]
• John Goodliffe, 1872–73 ^[1]
• Edward Pickering, 1873–74, 1882–83 ^[1]
• Richard Vause, 1870–71, 1874–75, 1878–79, 1883–85 ^[1]
• Sir Benjamin Wesley Greenacre, 1875–76, 1889–92, 1897–98 ^[1]
• William Arbuckle, 1876–78, 1880–82 ^[2]
• H W Currie, 1879–80 ^[1]
• J W Stranack, 1885–86 ^[1]
• W E Robarts, 1886–87 ^[1]
• T A O'Flaherty, R L Cunningham, 1887–88 ^[1]
• J J Hillier, 1887–89
• A W Leuchars, 1892–93
• George Payne, 1893–95, 1896–97
• R Jameson, 1895–96
• John Nicol, 1897–1901
• Ernest Leslie Acutt, 1901–02
• J Ellis Brown, 1902–05
• C Henwood, 1905–09 ^[3]
• Walter Greenacre, 1909–10

1910-2000

• F C Hollander, 1910–13
• W Holmes, 1913–15
• J H Nicolson, 1915–18
• T Burman, 1918–20
• T Burman and Fleming Johnston, 1920–21
• Fleming Johnston, 1921–22
• W Gilbert, 1922–24
• T M Wadley, 1924–26
• H L Buzzard, 1926–28
• A Eaton, 1928–29
• The Revd Archibald Lamont, 1929–32
• Oliver Lea, 1932–33
• Percy Osborn, 1933–34
• Dr S Copley, 1934–35
• Fleming Johnston, 1935–39
• R Ellis Brown, 1939–45, 1946–47
• S J Smith, 1945–46
• Leo Boyd, 1947–49
• Ken Clarke, 1949–50
• Percy Osborn, 1950–54
• R A Carte, 1954–55
• G Vernon Essery, 1955–56
• Percy Osborn, 1956–57
• H W Jackson, 1957–58
• W E Shaw, 1958–59
• C A Milne, 1959–64
• Dr Vernon Shearer, 1964–66
• Margaret Maytom
• T M Warman, 1968–70
• R Goldman, 1970–72
• Ron Williams, 1972–74
• A D Adams, 1974–76
• Dr G J Hollis, 1976–78
• Haydn Bradfield, 1978–80
• Mrs Sybil C Hotz, 1980–84
• Neil MacLennan, 1984–85
• Stanley H Lange, 1985–87
• Henry P Klotz, 1987–88
• D W Watterson, 1988–90
• J A Venter and G J Müller, 1990–92
• Margaret Winter, 1992–93
• Mike Lipschitz, 1993–96 ^[4]
• Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011

Durban City Hall, 2009

Since 2000 (eThekwini Municipality)

• Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011
• James Nxumalo, 2011–2016 ^[5]
• Zandile Gumede, 2016–2019 ^[6]
• Mxolisi Kaunda, 2019–2024
• Cyril Xaba, 2024-present ^[7]

See also

• Timeline of Durban
• Metropolitan municipality (South Africa)

References

1. W. P. M. Henderson (1904). Durban: Fifty Years' Municipal History. Durban: Robinson & Co. – via Internet Archive. (Includes portraits of mayors)
2. "William Arbuckle". Digital Innovation South Africa . University of KwaZulu-Natal. OCLC   225596326 . Retrieved 28 September 2017.
3. Twentieth Century Impressions of Natal: Its People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources. Twentieth Century Impressions. Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company. 1906.
4. "Former Durban mayor's killer paroled", News24.com , 15 July 2010
5. "City Mayor". eThekwini Municipality. Archived from the original on 21 June 2012 – via Wayback Machine.
6. "Zandile Gumede, Themba Njilo officially out as ANC makes sweeping leadership changes". News24. News24. 13 August 2019. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
7. Matiwane, Zimasa (10 July 2024). "eThekwini elects Cyril Xaba as mayor after DA turnabout". eThekwini newly elected mayor . Retrieved 30 September 2024.

External links

• "Durban Mayors and other city officials". Cape Town: South African History Online.