Mayor of Durban
# 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

* George Christopher Cato [Wikidata], 1854–1856
* Edward Snell, 1856, 1867–69
* Savery Pinsent, 1856–57, 1859
* A W Evans, 1857–58
* 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
* J D Ballance, 1870
* William Palmer, 1871–72
* John Goodliffe, 1872–73
* Edward Pickering, 1873–74, 1882–83
* Richard Vause, 1870–71, 1874–75, 1878–79, 1883–85
* B W Greenacre, 1875–76, 1889–92, 1897–98
* William Arbuckle, 1876–78, 1880–82
* H W Currie, 1879–80
* J W Stranack, 1885–86
* W E Robarts, 1886–87
* T A O'Flaherty, R L Cunningham, 1887–88
* 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
* 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
* Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011

## Since 2000 (eThekwini Municipality)

* Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011
* James Nxumalo, 2011–2016
* Zandile Gumede, 2016–2019
* Mxolisi Kaunda, 2019–present
