Mayor of Bulawayo

The Executive Mayor of Bulawayo is the executive of the government of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. The Mayor is a member of the Bulawayo City Council, and is assisted by a deputy mayor. The Mayor uses the style "His Worship".^[1] The current mayor is David Coltart since 11 September 2023.

Mayor of Bulawayo
Coat of arms of Bulawayo
Incumbent David Coltart since 11 September 2023
Style	His Worship
Inaugural holder	Isidore Hirschler
Formation	25 November 1897; 127 years ago (1897-11-25)

History

Bulawayo's first mayor, Isidore Hirschler, took office on 25 November 1897.^[2] In 1981, following Zimbabwe's independence from the United Kingdom, Bulawayo's first black mayor, Naison Ndlovu, took office.

List of mayors

The following is a list of past mayors of Bulawayo.

Mayor	Term start	Term end		Party	Ref
Isidore Hirschler	25 November 1897	2 August 1898			[2][3]
Charles Theodore Holland	2 August 1898	1899
Henry Frederick White	1899	1900			[4]
William H. Haddon	27 September 1900	1901			[5]
John Kerr	1901	1902			[6]
J. E. Scott	1902	1904
Walter Baxendale	1904	1906			[7]
E. F. Philip	1906	1907
Emanuel Basch	1907	1911			[3][7]
Alex Fraser	1911	1912
Walter Baxendale	1912	1913			[7]
Alex Fraser	1913	1914
W. B. Bucknall	1914	1915
W. J. Atterbury	1915	1917
George Stewart	1917	1918
W. J. Atterbury	1918	1919
James Cowden	1919	1923		RGA	[8][9]
J. H. Bookless	1923	1924
Henry Robert Barbour	1924	1927		Rhodesia Party
H. B. Ellenbogen	1927	1929			[3][8]
W. H. Peard	1929	1932			[8]
William Maver	1932	1933
Theodore Holdengarde	1933	1934		United Party
Cessy Harris	1934	1936			[3]
Donald MacIntyre	1936	1938		Labour Party	[8]
Theodore Holdengarde	1938	1940		Liberal Party
D. W. Young	1940	1942
Edward Jonathan Davies	1942	1944		Labour Party
Donald MacIntyre	1944	1947		Labour Party	[8]
Henry Alfred Holmes	1947	1949		United Party
J. H. Butcher	1949	1951
C. M. Newman	1951	1953
John Morrison MacDonald	1953	1955		Liberal Party
John William Phillips	1955	1957
M. M. McNellie	1957	1959
Sydney Henderson Millar	1959	1960
Margot Brett	1960	1961
Jack Graham Pain	1961	1962		Dominion Party
Sydney Henderson Millar	1962	1963		Rhodesian Front
Aubrey M. Butcher	1963	1964
A. C. Dold	1964	1964
Abraham Menashe	1965	1967		Independent	[3]
William Kinleyside	1967	1968
Jurick Goldwasser	1968	1969			[3]
Max Logan	1969	1970
T. H. Doyle	1970	1971		Independent
H. Coronel	1971	1972
Ralph S. Harris	1972	1973
Eugene D. Gordon	1973	1974
Charles McKenzie Scott	1974	1975		Rhodesian Front
Len Sexon	1975	1976
Eric Hoyle	1976	1977
Joanna Sharland	1977	1978
D. J. Rowland	1978	1979
Mike Constandinos	1979	1981
Naison Ndlovu	1981	1983		PF–ZAPU
Enos Mdlongwa	1983	1985		PF–ZAPU
Nicholas Mabodoko	1985	1988		PF–ZAPU
J. M. Ndlovu	1988	1989		ZANU–PF
A. L. Ncube	1989	1990		ZANU–PF
Dennis Ndlovu	1990	1991		ZANU–PF
Nelson Sidanile	1991	1992		ZANU–PF
Israel Gadhlula	1992	1993		ZANU–PF
Joshua Malinga	1993	1995		ZANU–PF
Abel Siwela	1996	2000		ZANU–PF	[10]
Japhet Ndabeni Ncube	2001	2008		MDC (before 2005)	[10]
				MDC–M (after 2005)
Patrick Thaba-Moyo	2008	2013		MDC–T	[11]
Martin Moyo	2013	2018		MDC–T	[12]
Solomon Mguni	7 September 2018	2023		MDC Alliance	[13]
David Coltart	11 September 2023			CCC	[14]