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



 * , 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
 * Sir Benjamin Wesley 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