Mayor of Cape Town

Current Office

City of Cape Town (December 2000 - Present)

Historic Offices

Metropolitan Local Councils (June 1996 - December 2000)

Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC)

• Attie Adriaanse
• Rev William Bantom

  City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure)

• Nomaindia Mfeketo
• Theresa Solomons

  City of Tygerberg Municipality (Tygerberg Substructure)

• Clifford Sitonga
• Lukas Olivier

  South Peninsula Municipality (Southern Substructure)

• John Oswald "OJ" Jacobs

  Helderberg Municipality (Helderberg Substructure)

• Leon Deacon

  Oostenberg Municipality (Eastern Substructure)

• Danny De La Cruz

  Blaauwberg Municipality (Northern Substructure)

• Desmond Stoffberg
• Heather Maneveld
• Algene Ross

  City of Cape Town Transitional Council (February 1995 - June 1996)

• Rev William Bantom

  Mayors prior to multiracial democratic dispensation at local government level

• Patricia Kreiner
• Clive Keegan
• Frank van der Velde
• Gordon Oliver
• Peter Muller
• Leon Markowitz
• Sol Kreiner
• M.J. van Zyl
• Louis Kreiner
• Edward Mauerberger
• John Tyers
• David Bloomberg
• Richard Friedlander
• Jan Dommisse
• Gerald Ferry
• Walter Gradner
• William Peters
• Alfred Honikman
• Joyce Newton Thompson, first woman Mayor
• Colonel John Orville Billingham
• Pieter Wolmarans
• Arthur Keen
• Fritz Sonnenberg
• Charles Booth
• Herbert Gearing
• Abe Bloomberg
• Ernest Nyman
• Walter James
• Wilfred Brinton
• WC Foster
• James Low
• Louis Gradner
• Henry Stephan
• Rev Alfred Lewis
• Andrew Reid
• William Fish
• Ryno J. Verster
• William Gardener
• William J. Thorne
• Sir Harry Hands
• John Parker, first Mayor of "Greater" Cape Town after surrounding municipalities had been incorporated into the city
• Harry Hands
• Sir Frank Smith
• William Duncan Baxter
• Hyman Liberman
• Sir William Thorne
• Thomas O'Reilly
• Thomas Ball
• Herman Boalch
• Sir John Woodhead
• James Attwell
• George Smart
• John Woodhead
• Johan Mocke
• David Pieter de Villiers Graaff, later Minister of Public Works and Finance
• David Christiaan de Waal
• John Woodhead
• Thomas O'Reilly
• John Woodhead
• Thomas James Campbell Inglesby, former honorary Colonel of Cape Field Artillery
• Philip Stigant
• Charles Lewis
• William Fleming
• Petrus Kotze
• Jan Christiaan Hofmeyr
• John Philip
• Charles Lewis
• P.U. Leibbrandt
• Philip Stigant
• Gillis J. de Korte
• Philip Stigant
• Gillis J. de Korte , title changed from "chairman" to "mayor" in 1867
• D.G. van Breda
• Joseph Barry
• Thomas Watson
• W. Herman
• Gillis J. de Korte
• D.G. van Breda
• Hercules Crosse Jarvis
• J.J.L. Smuts
• Michiel van Breda, first Chairman of the Cape Town Municipality