title: Mayor of Durban
text: # 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
  