List of Mayors of Cape Town

This list of mayors of Cape Town gives an overview of the mayors of the municipality of Cape Town . The official titles changed in the course of the administrative history of this city.

Office title Chairman

• Michiel van Breda (1840-1844)
• JJL Smuts (1844-1848)
• Hercules Crosse Jarvis (1848-1860)
• DG van Breda (1860)
• Gillis J. de Korte (1860-1862)
• W. Herman (1862-1863)
• Thomas Watson (1863)
• Joseph Barry (1863-1865)
• DG van Breda (1865–1866)

Official title Mayor (since 1867)

• Gillis J. de Korte (1866–1871)
• Philip Stigant (1871–1872)
• Gillis J. de Korte (1872–1874)
• Philip Stigant (1874-1875)
• PU Leibbrandt (1875–1876)
• Charles Lewis (1876–1877)
• John Philip (1877-1878)
• Jan Christiaan Hofmeyr (1878–1879)
• Petrus Kotze (1879–1881)
• William Fleming (1881-1883)
• Charles Lewis (1883-1884)
• Philip Stigant (1884-1885)
• Thomas James Campbell Inglesby (1885-1886)
• John Woodhead (1886-1887)
• Thomas O'Reilly (1887-1888)
• John Woodhead (1888-1889)
• David Christiaan de Waal (1889–1890)
• David Pieter de Villiers Graaff (1890-1892), later Minister of Public Works and Finance
• Johan Mocke (1892-1893)
• John Woodhead (1893-1894)
• George Smart (1894–1895)
• James Attwell (1895-1896)
• John Woodhead (1896-1897)
• Herman Boalch, (1897–1898)
• Thomas Ball (1898–1900)
• Thomas O'Reilly (1900-1901)
• William Thorne (1901-1904)
• Hyman Liberman (1904-1907)
• William Duncan Baxter (1907-1908)
• Frank Smith (1908-1912)
• Harry Hands (1912-1913)

Official title Mayor of Greater Cape

• John Parker (1913-1915)
• Harry Hands (1915-1918)
• 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)
• Henry Stephan (1931–1933)
• Louis Gradner (1933-1935)
• James Low (1935-1937)
• WC 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 woman in this office)
• Alfred Honikman (1961–1963)
• William Peters (1963-1965)
• Walter Gradner (1965–1967)
• Gerald Ferry (1967-1969)
• Jan Dommisse (1969–1971)
• David Bloomberg (1971-1973)
• Richard Friedlander (1973–1975)
• John Tyers (1975-1977)
• Edward Mauerberger (1977–1979)
• Louis Kreiner (1979-1981)
• MJ van Zyl (1981-1983)
• Sol Kreiner (1983–1985)
• Leon Markowitz (1985-1987)
• Peter Muller (1987-1989)
• Gordon Oliver (1989-1991)
• Frank van der Velde (1991–1993)
• Clive Keegan (1993)
• Patricia Kreiner (1993–1995)

Transition with the 1994 elections

With the Local Government Transition Act ( Act No. 209/1993 ) the basis for an administrative reorganization of the country was laid. The Minister of Local Government had declared the formation of the Western Cape Metropolitan Area in 1994 .

Transitional Council, 1995–1996 (May)

The Transitional Council received by Proclamation 18/1995 in the Provincial Gazette No. 4929 established a legal basis and began operating on February 1, 1995. This lasted until its dissolution on May 28, 1996 ( Proclamation 27/1996 in Provincial Gazette No. 5051 and Proclamation 147/1995 in Provincial Gazette No. 5002). Regional elections were held on May 29, 1996.

• William Bantom (1995-1996), NP

Metropolitan Local Council, 1996 (June) -2000

After the regional elections on May 29, 1996, the Cape Town metropolitan area was divided into six sub-districts and the Cape Metropolitan Council was at the head of this administrative structure . The municipalities of Central Substructure (City of Cape Town Municipality), Tygerberg Substructure , Southern Substructure (South Peninsula), Northern Substructure (Blaauwberg), Eastern Substructure (Oostenberg) and Helderberg Substructure were formed . These administrative units were self-governing districts with their own local councils and mayors.

Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC)

Representative body of the Cape Town Metropolitan Area

• William Bantom (1996-2000), NP , NNP
• Attie Adriaanse (2000), NNP

City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure)

• Theresa Solomons (1996-1998), ANC
• Nomaindia Mfeketo (1998-2000), ANC

City of Cape Town Metropolitan Council (Unicity) since 2000

After the regional elections on December 5, 2000 in the Western Cape , the Cape Town Metropolitan Area was converted to the Metropolitan Municipality of City of Cape Town (Unicity). This transition took place on the basis of the Local Government: Municipal Structures Act ( Act No. 117/1998 ). The former municipalities Cape Town , South Peninsula , Helderberg , Tygerberg , Oostenberg and Blaauwberg were merged and the activities of the Cape Metropolitan Council ended. The liquidation was ordered on December 4th ( Proclamation 479/2000 in Provincial Gazette No. 5588).

• Peter Marais (December 2000 – November 2001), NNP
• Gerald Morkel (November 2001 – October 2002), NNP
• Nomaindia Mfeketo (October 2002-March 2006), ANC
• Helen Zille (March 2006 – June 2009), DA
• Dan Plato (2009-2011), DA
• Patricia de Lille (2011-2018), DA
• Dan Plato (since November 2018), DA

Individual evidence

1. ^ Cape Town Mayors and other city officials . on www.sahistory.org.za (English)
2. ↑ Dirk Van Der Cruysse: Le Cap . Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-213-63237-7
3. ^ Local Government Transition Act 209 of 1993 . on www.enviroleg.co.za (English)
4. ^ EISA: South Africa: Election archive. 1995/6 Local government elections . on www.content.eisa.org.za ( Memento of the original from April 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
5. ↑ AfricaBib bibliographic database: Robert Cameron: Local government boundary demarcation: the case of the Western Cape Metropolitan Area substructures . In: Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, Vol. 23 (1996), Edition 1, pp. 21-42, (bibliographical entry with brief description). on www.africabib.org (English)
6. ^ Caroline Skinner: Local Government in Transition - A Gendered Analysis of Trends in Urban Policy and Practice Regarding Street Trading in Five South African Cities . CSDS Research Report No. 18, University of Natal, Durban 1999. online at sds.ukzn.ac.za (English)
7. ^ EISA: South African local government election 2000: Cape Town Metropolitan Council results . on www.content.eisa.org.za ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) 
8. ^ Melanie Lue Dugmore: A Review of New Developments in Policing in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area . Occasional Paper Series 2003, UCT 2003. online at www.ewater.co.za, PDF document p. 3 ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)