The Mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town

Cape Town

Cape Town is the second-most populous city in South Africa, and the provincial capital and primate city of the Western Cape. As the seat of the National Parliament, it is also the legislative capital of the country. It forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town

City of Cape Town

The City of Cape Town is the metropolitan municipality which governs the city of Cape Town, South Africa and its suburbs and exurbs. As of 2007, it had a population of 3,497,097....

 Metropolitan Municipality. In the past, the position of Mayor has varied between that of an executive mayor actively governing the city and that of a figurehead mayor with a mostly ceremonial role. The current Mayor is Patricia de Lille

Patricia de Lille

Patricia de Lille is a South African politician and Mayor of Cape Town. She is also, concurrently, the leader of the Independent Democrats, a South African political party which she formed in 2003 during a floor-crossing window...

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City of Cape Town (December 2000 - Present)

• Patricia de Lille
  Patricia de Lille
  Patricia de Lille is a South African politician and Mayor of Cape Town. She is also, concurrently, the leader of the Independent Democrats, a South African political party which she formed in 2003 during a floor-crossing window...
  
   (DA) (June 2011–present)
• Dan Plato
  Dan Plato
  Daniel "Dan" Plato is the Minister for Community Safety in the Western Cape and the former Executive Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa.-References:...
  
   (DA) (May 2009–May 2011)
• Helen Zille
  Helen Zille
  Helen Zille is the Premier of the Western Cape, a member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, leader of South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance political party, and a former Mayor of Cape Town.Zille is a former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, and famously exposed the truth...
  
   (DA) (March 2006–April 2009)
• Nomaindia Mfeketo
  Nomaindia Mfeketo
  Nomaindia Mfeketo is the current Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa. She was the mayor of Cape Town in South Africa in 2000 and again from 2002 to 2006....
  
   (ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
  ) (October 2002–March 2006)
• Gerald Morkel
  Gerald Morkel
  Gerald Morkel is a former Mayor of Cape Town and Premier of the Western Cape province in South Africa. He currently serves as a member of the Cape Town City Council for the Democratic Alliance....
  
   (DA) (November 2001–October 2002)
• Peter Marais
  Peter Marais
  Peter Marais is a South African politician who participated in the Tricameral Parliament and became the Mayor of Cape Town after the 2000 election and later Premier of the Western Cape province....
  
   (DA) (December 2000–November 2001)

Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC)

• Attie Adriaanse (2000) (NNP)
• Rev William Bantom
  William Bantom
  Rev. William Bantom was mayor of Cape Town from 1995 to 2000.He became the city's first black mayor following the first multi-racial local government elections in 1995...
  
   (1996 - 2000) (NNP)

City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure)

• Nomaindia Mfeketo
  Nomaindia Mfeketo
  Nomaindia Mfeketo is the current Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa. She was the mayor of Cape Town in South Africa in 2000 and again from 2002 to 2006....
  
   (1998 - 2000) (ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
  )
• Theresa Solomons (1996 - 1998) (ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
  )

City of Tygerberg Municipality (Tygerberg Substructure)

• Clifford Sitonga (1999 - 2000) (ANC
  African National Congress
  The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
  
  )
• Lukas Olivier (1996 - 1999) (NNP)

South Peninsula Municipality (Southern Substructure)

• John Oswald "OJ" Jacobs (1996 - 2000) (NNP)

Helderberg Municipality (Helderberg Substructure)

• Leon Deacon (1996 - 2000) (NNP)

Oostenberg Municipality (Eastern Substructure)

• Danny De La Cruz (1996 - 2000) (NNP)

Blaauwberg Municipality (Northern Substructure)

• Desmond Stoffberg (1999 - 2000) (NNP)
• Heather Maneveld (1997 - 1999) (NNP)
• Algene Ross (1996 - 1997) (NNP)

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

• Rev William Bantom
  William Bantom
  Rev. William Bantom was mayor of Cape Town from 1995 to 2000.He became the city's first black mayor following the first multi-racial local government elections in 1995...
  
   (1995 - 1996) (NP
  National Party (South Africa)
  The National Party is a former political party in South Africa. Founded in 1914, it was the governing party of the country from 4 June 1948 until 9 May 1994. Members of the National Party were sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a...
  
  )

City of Cape Town prior to introduction of multiracial democratic dispensation at local government level in February 1995

(Unless otherwise indicated, names are taken from the cumulative list of mayors published in the annual Mayor's Minutes)

• Patricia Kreiner (1993 - 1995)
• Clive Keegan (1993)
• Frank van der Velde (1991 - 1993)

• Gordon Oliver (1989 - 1991)
• Peter Muller (1987 - 1989)
• Leon Markowitz (1985 - 1987)
• Sol Kreiner (1983 - 1985)
• M.J. van Zyl (1981 - 1983)

• Louis Kreiner (1979 - 1981)
• Edward Mauerberger (1977 - 1979)
• John Tyers (1975 - 1977)
• David Bloomberg (1973 - 1975)
• Richard Friedlander (1971 - 1973)

• Jan Dommisse (1969 - 1971)
• Gerald Ferry (1967 - 1969)
• Walter Gradner (1965 - 1967)
• William Peters (1963 - 1965)
• Alfred Honikman (1961 - 1963)

• Joyce Newton Thompson (1959 - 1961), first woman Mayor
• Colonel John Orville Billingham (1957 - 1959)
• Pieter Wolmarans (1955 - 1957)
• Arthur Keen (1953 - 1955)
• Fritz Sonnenberg (1951 - 1953)

• Charles Booth (1949 - 1951)
• Herbert Gearing (1947 - 1949)
• Abe Bloomberg (1945 - 1947)
• Ernest Nyman (1943 - 1945)
• Walter James (1941 - 1943)

• Wilfred Brinton (1939 - 1941)
• WC Foster (1937 - 1939)
• James Low (1935 - 1937)
• Louis Gradner (1933 - 1935)
• Henry Stephan (1931 - 1933)

• Rev Alfred Lewis (1929 - 1931)
• Andrew Reid (1927 - 1929)
• William Fish
  William Fish
  -Life:Fish was from Norwich. He commenced his musical career as violinist in the theatre orchestra there. After studying under Michael Sharp , the oboist, and Capel Bond, the pianist and organist, he took part in in local concerts and cathedral festivals. He was organist of St. Andrew's, Norwich,...
  
   (1925 - 1927)
• Ryno J. Verster (1922 - 1925)

• William Gardener (1920 - 1922)
• William J. Thorne (1918 - 1920)
• Sir Harry Hands
  Harry Hands
  Sir Harry Hands, K.B.E , was a British colonial politician.Born as a son of Josiah Hands of Kings Norton, Warwickshire in 1860, he was educated at King Edward School in Birmingham and married Aletta C., daughter of Philip Myburgh. He was a member of the legislative assembly of the Cape Colony from...
  
   (1915 - 1918) (second term)
• John Parker (1913 - 1915), first Mayor of "Greater" Cape Town after surrounding municipalities had been incorporated into the city
• Harry Hands
  Harry Hands
  Sir Harry Hands, K.B.E , was a British colonial politician.Born as a son of Josiah Hands of Kings Norton, Warwickshire in 1860, he was educated at King Edward School in Birmingham and married Aletta C., daughter of Philip Myburgh. He was a member of the legislative assembly of the Cape Colony from...
  
   (1912 - 1913) (first term)

• Sir Frank Smith (1908 - 1912)
• William Duncan Baxter
  William Duncan Baxter
  William Duncan Baxter was the Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1907 to 1908. Baxter is the namesake of the Baxter Theatre Centre, a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town...
  
   (1907 - 1908)
• Hyman Liberman (1904 - 1907)
• Sir William Thorne (1901 - 1904)

• Thomas O'Reilly (1900 - 1901) (second term)
• Thomas Ball (1898 - 1900)
• Herman Boalch (1897 - 1898) (died in office)
• Sir John Woodhead (1896 - 1897) (fourth term)
• James Attwell (1895 - 1896)
• George Smart (1894 - 1895)
• John Woodhead (1893 - 1894) (third term)
• Johan Mocke (1892 - 1893)
• David Pieter de Villiers Graaff (1890 - 1892), later Minister of Public Works and Finance

• David Christiaan de Waal (1889 - 1890)
• John Woodhead (1888 - 1889( (second term)
• Thomas O'Reilly (1887 - 1888) (first term)
• John Woodhead (1886 - 1887) (first term)
• Thomas James Campbell Inglesby (1885 - 1886), former honorary Colonel of Cape Field Artillery
  Cape Field Artillery
  The Cape Field Artillery is an artillery regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Territorial Army or United States Army National Guard unit...
  
  
• Philip Stigant (1884 - 1885) (third term)
• Charles Lewis (1883 - 1884) (second term)
• William Fleming (1881 - 1883)

• Petrus Kotze (1879 - 1881)
• Jan Christiaan Hofmeyr (1878 - 1879)
• John Philip (1877 - 1878)
• Charles Lewis (1876 - 1877) (first term)
• P.U. Leibbrandt (1875 - 1876)
• Philip Stigant (1874 - 1875) (second term)
• Gillis J. de Korte (1872 - 1874) (third term)
• Philip Stigant (1871-1872) (first term)

• Gillis J. de Korte (1866 - 1871) (second term), title changed from "chairman" to "mayor" in 1867
• D.G. van Breda (1865 - 1866) (second term)
• Joseph Barry (1863 - 1865)
• Thomas Watson (1863)
• W. Herman (1862 - 1863)
• Gillis J. de Korte (1860 - 1862) (first term)

• D.G. van Breda (1860) (first term)
• Hercules Crosse Jarvis
  Hercules Crosse Jarvis
  Hercules Crosse Jarvis MLC, MLA, was a mayor of Cape Town and a powerful merchant of the Cape Colony.Born in Plymouth, England in 18 June 1803, he was a close relative of John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, the admiral who fought Napoleon...
  
   (1848 - 1860)
• J.J.L. Smuts (1844 - 1848)
• Michiel van Breda (1840 - 1844), first Chairman of the Cape Town Municipality