title: William Bantom
text: # William Bantom
  
  Rev. William Bantom (born 1946?) was mayor of Cape Town from 1995 to 2000.
  
  He became the city's first black mayor following the first non-racial local government elections in 1995. He was forced to resign as mayor and expelled from the New National Party in 2000 after being caught downloading pornography from the internet.
  
  He was a minister in the Church of the Nazarene.
  
  