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. The current mayor is Geordin Hill-Lewis of the Democratic Alliance (DA) Current office This is a list of mayors of Cape Town in South Africa: City of Cape Town (December 2000–present) Historic offices Metropolitan Local Councils (June 1996–December 2000) Cape Metropolitan Council (CMC) Attie Adriaanse (2000) (NNP) Rev William Bantom (1996 - 2000) (NNP) City of Cape Town Municipality (Central Substructure) Nomaindia Mfeketo (1998 - 2000) (ANC) Theresa Solomons (1996 - 1998) (ANC) City of Tygerberg Municipality (Tygerberg Substructure) Clifford Sitonga (1999 - 2000) (ANC) Lukas Olivier (1996 - 1999) (NNP) South Peninsula Municipality (Southern Substructure) John Oswald "OJ" Jacobs (1996 - 2000) (NNP) Helderberg Municipality (Helderberg Substructure) James Matthews (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 (1995 - 1996) (NP) Mayors prior to nonracial dispensation (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 female 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