
Bongani Michael Baloyi is a South African politician. In 2013, he was elected Executive Mayor of the Midvaal Local Municipality. He was only 26 years old at the time, and he consequently became the youngest mayor in South Africa. From 2011 to 2013, he was the MMC for Development and Planning in the municipality. Baloyi is a member of the Democratic Alliance (DA).

William Duncan Baxter was a businessman, politician, and the Mayor of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1907 to 1908. The theatre, generally known as "The Baxter", a performing arts complex in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, was named in his honour.

Sir Ernest Samuel Beoku-Betts was a prominent Sierra Leonean lawyer who was very active in civic matters. He served first as member of the Freetown City Council and subsequently as its mayor (1925–1926). He improved the city and reorganized the council. He was also elected to the Legislative Council in 1924, where he worked closely with Herbert Bankole-Bright.
Redwan Hussien Rameto is an Ethiopian politician and Ambassador of Ethiopia to Eritrea.

André Kimbuta Yango is a Congolese politician and currently Governor of Kinshasa.

Mabel Catherine Malherbe was a South African politician. She was an activist for women's suffrage. She was the first woman Mayor of Pretoria from 1931 to 1932. She was also first Afrikaner woman member to be the member of the South African Parliament.

Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo is a South African politician, who has served as the Chairperson of South Africa's National Council of Provinces since 23 May 2019. He was the mayor of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, between December 2000 and 2011. He is a member of the African National Congress, and was the first elected mayor of the Unified City of Johannesburg.

Yasin Mire Mohamud is a Somali politician. He was mayor of Bosaso from 2015 to 2018, the commercial capital and biggest of the autonomous Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, after the city's District Council unanimously voted for him in 2014.. He also in charge in other offices.

Martin K. Moyo is the former Mayor of the City of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. He was born on 30 December 1952, and is married to Violet Bhebhe with whom they have a son named Likhwa Milton Moyo. He was voted in as the Councillor for the City of Bulawayo's Ward 3 in 2008. He successfully contested the local authority's Ward Elections again in 2013, after which he was voted in as the City's Mayor by the Councillors.

Augustin Senghor is a Senegalese politician. A member of the Rally of the Ecologists of Senegal, he became the mayor of Gorée in 2002, prominently featuring anti-erosion measures in his platform.

Imed Trabelsi is a businessman, politician, and favorite nephew of Leïla Ben Ali, the former First Lady of Tunisia, Trabelsi was formerly the mayor of La Goulette, Tunisia. Under Ben Ali's regime, Trabelsi controlled the construction and alcohol industry in Tunisia, in addition to operating a franchise of the French company Bricorama.

Philippe Grégoire Yacé was an Ivorian politician and one time president of the National Assembly.