Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay

Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay
Incumbent Babalwa Lobishe since 31 October 2024
Style	The Honourable
Residence	No official residence
Seat	City Hall, 1st floor, Vusi Dlamini Square, Central, Gqeberha, 6000
Appointer	Nelson Mandela Bay Municipal Council
Formation	2000
First holder	Nceba Faku
Website	Official website

The Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay, officially the Executive Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, is the head of the local government of South Africa's Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, established in 2000.

The current mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay is Gary van Niekerk of the National Alliance (NA), who was elected on 26 May 2023. He succeeded Retief Odendaal of the Democratic Alliance (DA), who was removed in a motion of no confidence earlier that day. ^[1]

List of mayors

Name		Term of office		Political party	Ref.
	Christopher Nceba Faku	2001	2006	African National Congress
	Nondumiso Maphazi	2006	2009	African National Congress	[2]
	Zanoxolo Wayile	2009	2013	African National Congress	[3]
	Ben Fihla	2013	2015	African National Congress	[4]
	Danny Jordaan	2015	2016	African National Congress	[5]
	Athol Trollip	2016	2018	Democratic Alliance	[6]
	Mongameli Bobani	2018	2019	United Democratic Movement	[7]
	Tshonono Buyeye (acting)	2019	2020	African Independent Congress	[8]
	Nqaba Bhanga	2020	2021	Democratic Alliance	[9]
	Eugene Johnson	2021	2022	African National Congress	[10]
	Retief Odendaal	2022	2023	Democratic Alliance	[11]
	Gary van Niekerk	2023	2024	National Alliance
	Babalwa Lobishe	2024	Incumbent	African National Congress

References

1. "Northern Alliance's Gary Van Niekerk elected new NMB Mayor". SABC News. 2023-05-26. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
2. "News - Engineering Advice and Services". www.easpe.co.za. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
3. "Zanoxolo Wayile appointed Mayor of Nelson Mandela Metro | SAnews". www.sanews.gov.za. 2013-02-26. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
4. "New mayor: Age ain't nothing but a number". News24. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
5. Correspondent, Derrick Spies, News24. "Danny Jordaan ANC's choice to replace Nelson Mandela Bay mayor". News24. Retrieved 2023-07-10.{{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
6. Koyana, Xolani. "DA's Athol Trollip officially elected mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay". ewn.co.za. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
7. "Mongameli Bobani becomes Nelson Mandela Bay's new mayor". HeraldLIVE. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
8. McCain, Nicole. "DA threatens legal action to have new Nelson Mandela Bay mayor appointed". News24. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
9. Persens, Lizell. "EC DA leader Nqaba Bhanga elected new NMB Mayor". ewn.co.za. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
10. Bezuidenhout, Candice. "ANC's Eugene Johnson elected Nelson Mandela Bay's new executive mayor". News24. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
11. "DA Councillor Retief Odendaal elected as new Executive Mayor of Nelson Mandela Bay". Democratic Alliance. Retrieved 2023-07-10.