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Mayors prior to multiracial democratic dispensation at local government level

Mayor of Cape Town

Gordon Oliver

1989 – 1991

One of the main features of Mayor Oliver’s term was promoting the right of all citizens to protest peacefully against the injustices of the apartheid laws of that time.

Cape Town, like every other city and town in South Africa at that time, was experiencing huge turmoil and unrest due to police action in preventing the public from peacefully engaging in protest action.

On 13th September 1989, five days after Oliver’s inauguration as mayor, he participated in a public protest march in the city, accompanying Archbishop Desmond Tutu and many other religious and civic leaders as well as 30 000 Capetonians of all walks of life. This event attracted major national and international publicity. It has been said that his role in this event had a significant influence on then President De Klerk’s decision on 2nd February 1990 to formally and finally abandon apartheid as government policy.

While publicly supporting the right to peaceful protests Oliver also wanted to demonstrate the City of Cape Town’s longstanding commitment to opposing the apartheid government’s ongoing denial of the right to justice, freedom and dignity to people of colour in the larger context of South Africa’s racist political ideology.

That protest march was the first of the two major highlights of Oliver’s mayoral term. The second was welcoming Nelson Mandela to the city hall to address the nation and the world on 11th February 1990, the day of his release from prison.  Oliver was again to play a small role then in the making of history in our country.

In keeping with his liberal principles, Oliver later was ordained as a minister in the Cape Town Unitarian Church, a liberal community promoting free religious enquiry.

Mayor of Cape Town
Incumbent
Dan Plato
since 6 November 2018
StyleThe Honourable
AppointerCape Town City Council
Term lengthFive years
Inaugural holderMichiel van Breda
Formation1840
WebsiteOfficial Website

The Mayor of Cape Town is the head of the local government of Cape Town, South Africa; currently that government takes the form of the City of Cape Town 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.

Current Office

This is a list of Mayors of Cape Town in South Africa:

City of Cape Town (December 2000 - Present)

Name Term of office Political party
style="background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" | Peter Marais December 2000 November 2001 New National Party
style="background-color: Template:National Party (South Africa)/meta/color" | Gerald Morkel December 2001 October 2002 New National Party
style="background-color: Template:African National Congress/meta/color" | Nomaindia Mfeketo October 2002 March 2006 African National Congress
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/meta/color" | Helen Zille March 2006 April 2009 Democratic Alliance
style="background-color: Template:African Christian Democratic Party/meta/color" | Grant Haskin (acting) April 2009 May 2009 African Christian Democratic Party
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/meta/color" | Dan Plato May 2009 May 2011 Democratic Alliance
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/meta/color" | Patricia de Lille June 2011 October 2018 Democratic Alliance
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/meta/color" | Ian Neilson (acting)
 May 2018
October 2018 		May 2018
November 2018 		Democratic Alliance
style="background-color: Template:Democratic Alliance (South Africa)/meta/color" | Dan Plato November 2018 Incumbent Democratic Alliance

Historic Offices

Metropolitan Local Councils (June 1996 - December 2000)

Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC)

City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure)

  • Nomaindia Mfeketo (1998 - 2000) (ANC)
  • Theresa Solomons (1996 - 1998) (ANC)

City of Tygerberg Municipality (Tygerberg Substructure)

South Peninsula Municipality (Southern Substructure)

Helderberg Municipality (Helderberg Substructure)

Oostenberg Municipality (Eastern Substructure)

Blaauwberg Municipality (Northern Substructure)

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

Mayors prior to multiracial democratic dispensation at local government level

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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Successor to porn-watching mayor elected". Independent Newspapers. 27 September 2000.
  2. ^ "Porn-watching mayor says sorry". Independent Newspapers. 12 September 2000.
  3. ^ "Quotes about Cape Town mayoral system".
  4. ^ "Great Guides - Roddy Bray".
  5. ^ "Two Minutes of Silence and Poppies".
  6. ^ "William Duncan Baxter".
  7. ^ Union of South Africa
  8. ^ Gunners of The Cape - Neil Orpen
  9. ^ Bredasdorp Archived 2003-03-20 at the Wayback Machine

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