Mayor of Durban

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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

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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

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  • 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)

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o 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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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