Elma Rabe is a South African politician and a current Member of the

KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature The KwaZulu-Natal Legislature is the primary legislative body of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is unicameral in its composition and elects the premier and the provincial cabinet from among the leading party or coalition members ...

for the Democratic Alliance.

Political career

Rabe had previously served as the DA's Provincial Director in the

KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

before she was elected to the

in the 2019 provincial election, having been ranked 10th on the

party 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 c ...

. She was appointed the DA KZN Spokesperson on Social Development. She supported fellow MPL Mbali Ntuli's unsuccessful bid for DA leader at the 2020 Democratic Alliance Federal Congress. At the DA's provincial congress held on 27 March 2021, Rabe was elected as one of three deputy provincial chairpersons of the party. She was appointed the party's provincial spokesperson on agriculture in December 2021. Rabe unsuccessfully stood for re-election as a deputy provincial chairperson of the DA at the party's provincial conference in April 2023.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rabe, Elma Living people Year of birth missing (living people) White South African people Democratic Alliance (South Africa) politicians Members of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature Women members of provincial legislatures of South Africa