Here is a list of the local, district and metro mayors in South Africa with their age at the end of 31 December 2022.

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Methodology

We confirmed the mayors at each municipality using press releases, news articles and contacting the municipality. To work out the age of each mayor, we used the 2021 elections candidate list which had the first six digits of the South African ID number. The first two digits of the South African ID represent the year of the person’s birth. We used this to calculate the age of each candidate. In cases when the mayor was not on the candidate list, we contacted the mayors and municipalities individually.

We do not have the data for eight mayors, but we have contacted the municipalities for this data and we will add it once we receive it.

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