Mayor of Johannesburg

Head of the local government of Johannesburg, South Africa

The Mayor of Johannesburg is the highest elected position in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Since 2000, they are the chief executive of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality council. The position remained vacant from 24 April 2023, when Thapelo Amad announced his resignation after less than three months in office. On 16 August 2024, the council elected Dada Morero to the position.^[1]

List of mayors

Johannesburg Metro: 2000–present

The City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality was established in 2000 and its inaugural council was elected in the municipal elections of that year.

Johannesburg: 1897–2000

The following lists the mayors of Johannesburg before the establishment of the present-day metropolitan municipality in 2000.^[2]

• Johan Zulch de Villiers (1897–1900) – appointed by South African Republic Executive Committee
• Walter Alfred John O'Meara (1900–1902) – appointed by British Military Administration
• William St. John Carr (1902–1904)
• George H. Goch (1904–1905)
• John William Quinn (1905–1906)
• William K. Tucker (1906–1907)
• James Thompson (1907–1908)
• Charles Chudleigh (1908–1909)
• Harry Graumann (1909–1910)
• Harry J. Hofmeyr (1910–1911)
• J. D. Ellis (1911–1912)
• William Richard Boustred (1912–1913)
• Norman Anstey (1913–1915)
• John Wesley O'Hara (1915–1917)
• T. F. Allen (1917–1919)
• G. B. Steer (1919–1920)
• J. Christie (1920–1921)
• S. Hancock (1921–1922)
• L. Forsyth Allan (1922–1923)
• M. J. Harris (1923–1924)
• C. Walters (1924–1925)
• E. O. Leake (1925–1926)
• Alfred Law Palmer (1926–1927)
• W. H. Port (1927–1928)
• W. Fernhead (1928–1929)
• D. Anderson (1929–1930)
• George W. Nelson (1930–1931)
• D. F. Corlett (1931–1932)
• B. C. Vickers (1932–1933)
• D. Penry Roberts (1933–1934)
• Maurice Freeman (1934–1935)
• Maldwyn Edmund (1935–1936)
• Donald W. Mackay (1936–1937)
• J. S. Fotheringham (1937–1938)
• J. J. Page (1938–1939)
• T. A. M. Huddle (1939–1940)
• T. P. Gray (1940–1941)
• A. R. Thorburn (1941–1942)
• L. Leveson (1942–1943)
• A. S. Holland (1943–1944)
• A. Immink (1944–1945)
• Jessie McPherson (1945–1946)
• James Gray (1946–1947)
• G. B. Gordon (1947–1948)
• S. P. Lee (1948–1949)
• J. Mincer (1949–1950)
• C. F. Beckett (1950–1951)
• I. E. B. Attwell (1951–1952)
• Hyman Miller (1952–1953)
• C. J. H. Patmore (1953–1954)
• G. J. Beckett (1954–1955)
• Leslie Hurd (1955–1956)
• Max Goodman (1956–1957)
• T. Glyn Morris (1957–1958)
• Ian Maltz (1958–1959)
• Alec Gorshel (1959–1960)
• D. J. Marais (1960–1962)
• Keith J. Fleming (1962–1963)
• J. F. Oberholzer (1963–1964)
• P. M. Roos (1964–1965)
• Aleck Joffe (1965–1966)
• Boyce D. Eagar (1966–1967)
• C. J. Ross-Spencer (1967–1968)
• I. Schlapobersky (1968–1969)
• Patrick R. B. Lewis (1969–1970)
• S. Moss (1970–1971)
• Alf Widman (1971–1972)
• J. C. Lemmer (1972–1973)
• A. D. Bensusan (1973–1974)
• Harold Frank Dennis (1974–1975)
• Max Neppe (1975–1976)
• Monty Sklaar (1976–1977)
• Martin Powell (1977–1978)
• J. S. Otto (1978–1979)
• J. D. R. Opperman (1979–1980)
• Carel Venter (1980–1981)
• Cecil Long (1981–1982)
• Danie van Zyl (1982–1983)
• Alan Gadd (1983–1984)
• Eddy Magid (1984–1985)
• Ernie Fabel (1985–1986)
• Harold Rudolph (1986–1987)
• O. H. Fenn (1987–1988)
• J. H. van Blerk (1988)
• David J. Neppe (1988–1989)
• Koos Roets (1989–1990)
• William G. L. Janse van Rensburg (1990–1991)
• Elliot Kretzmer (1991–1992)
• J. S. Burger (1992–1993)
• Les Dishy (1993–1994)
• Dan Pretorius (1994)
• Isaac Mogase (1995–2000)

See also

• Timeline of Johannesburg
• City of Johannesburg elections

Notes

1. In October 2022, the Johannesburg High Court ruled that Phalatse's removal from office, and therefore Morero's election, was unlawful and invalid. Phalatse was reinstated.

References

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