Mayor of Johannesburg

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. On 16 August 2024, the council elected Dada Morero to the position.

List of mayors

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

Johan Zulch de Villiers – appointed by South African Republic Executive Committee
Walter Alfred John O'Meara – appointed by British Military Administration
William St. John Carr
George H. Goch
John William Quinn
William K. Tucker
James Thompson
Charles Chudleigh
Harry Graumann
Harry J. Hofmeyr
J. D. Ellis
William Richard Boustred
Norman Anstey
John Wesley O'Hara
T. F. Allen
G. B. Steer
J. Christie
S. Hancock
L. Forsyth Allan
M. J. Harris
C. Walters
E. O. Leake
Alfred Law Palmer
W. H. Port
W. Fernhead
D. Anderson
George W. Nelson
D. F. Corlett
B. C. Vickers
D. Penry Roberts
Maurice Freeman
Maldwyn Edmund
Donald W. Mackay
J. S. Fotheringham
J. J. Page
T. A. M. Huddle
T. P. Gray
A. R. Thorburn
L. Leveson
A. S. Holland
A. Immink
Jessie McPherson
James Gray
G. B. Gordon
S. P. Lee
J. Mincer
C. F. Beckett
I. E. B. Attwell
Hyman Miller
C. J. H. Patmore
G. J. Beckett
Leslie Hurd
Max Goodman
T. Glyn Morris
Ian Maltz
Alec Gorshel
D. J. Marais
Keith J. Fleming
J. F. Oberholzer
P. M. Roos
Aleck Joffe
Boyce D. Eagar
C. J. Ross-Spencer
I. Schlapobersky
Patrick R. B. Lewis
S. Moss
Alf Widman
J. C. Lemmer
A. D. Bensusan
Harold Frank Dennis
Max Neppe
Monty Sklaar
Martin Powell
J. S. Otto
J. D. R. Opperman
Carel Venter
Cecil Long
Danie van Zyl
Alan Gadd
Eddy Magid
Ernie Fabel
Harold Rudolph
O. H. Fenn
J. H. van Blerk
David J. Neppe
Koos Roets
William G. L. Janse van Rensburg
Elliot Kretzmer
J. S. Burger
Les Dishy
Dan Pretorius
Isaac Mogase