The Rehoboth Ratepayers' Association (RRA) is a local political party in Rehoboth, Namibia. It is closely affiliated with Namibia's

Baster The Basters (also known as Baasters, Rehobothers or Rehoboth Basters) are a Southern African ethnic group descended from white European men and black African women, usually of Khoisan origin, but occasionally also enslaved women from the Cape, ...

community which is centered in Rehoboth. The party was formed in 1998 by Baster leader Hans Diergaardt to the contest the 1998 local elections.APP forges election pact with Rehoboth
New Era, 13 October 2009 Despite Diergaardt's death in February 1998, the party continued to run candidates. In 2009, the party's leader and first secretary was Lukas de Klerk.

Election results

2009 general election

For the 2009 general election, RRA signed a five-year electoral cooperation agreement with the All People's Party. With the agreement, 2-5 RRA members were listed on the

electoral list An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can ...

of the APP and the APP agreed not to run a candidate in Rehoboth in the 2010 local elections. RRA leader de Klerk said the agreement was a way for Rehoboth to have representation in the National Assembly of Namibia. He was listed at the sixth position for the APP on the list for the National Assembly but the APP won only 1 seat, which went to APP leader Ignatius Shixwameni.

2010 local elections

In the 2010 local and regional elections RRA ran a campaign for the local authority of Rehoboth and finished in fourth in the town with 360 total votes.Rehoboth local authority results
''Electoral Commission of Namibia''

References

1998 establishments in Namibia Political parties established in 1998 Political parties in Namibia Rehoboth, Namibia {{Namibia-party-stub