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• George Christopher Cato [Wikidata], 1854–1856^[1]
• Edward Snell, 1856, 1867–69^[1]
• Savery Pinsent, 1856–57, 1859^[1]
• A W Evans, 1857–58^[1]
• 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 ^[1]
• J D Ballance, 1870 ^[1]
• William Palmer, 1871–72 ^[1]
• John Goodliffe, 1872–73 ^[1]
• Edward Pickering, 1873–74, 1882–83 ^[1]
• Richard Vause, 1870–71, 1874–75, 1878–79, 1883–85 ^[1]
• Sir Benjamin Wesley Greenacre, 1875–76, 1889–92, 1897–98 ^[1]
• William Arbuckle, 1876–78, 1880–82 ^[2]
• H W Currie, 1879–80 ^[1]
• J W Stranack, 1885–86 ^[1]
• W E Robarts, 1886–87 ^[1]
• T A O'Flaherty, R L Cunningham, 1887–88 ^[1]
• 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^[3]
• Walter Greenacre, 1909–10

• 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
• DrVernon 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 ^[4]
• Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011

• Obed Mlaba, 1996–2011
• James Nxumalo, 2011–2016 ^[5]
• Zandile Gumede, 2016–2019^[6]
• Mxolisi Kaunda, 2019–present

• Timeline of Durban
• Metropolitan municipality (South Africa)

• "Durban Mayors and other city officials". Cape Town: South African History Online.