The Rehoboth Ratepayers' Association (RRA) is a local

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Rehoboth, Namibia Rehoboth is a town in the Hardap Region of central Namibia, just north of the Tropic of Capricorn. It had a population of 40,788 people in 2023. Rehoboth is intersected from north to south by the national road B1, which also serves as the bor ...

. It is closely affiliated with Namibia's

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community which is centered in Rehoboth. The party was formed in 1998 by Baster leader

Hans Diergaardt Johannes Gerard Adolph Diergaardt, more commonly known as Hans Diergaardt (16 September 1927 – 13 February 1998) was a Namibian politician active for nearly a decade after Namibia gained independence. Prior to that, he was elected as the fifth Tr ...

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

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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

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. 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 Ignatius Nkotongo Shixwameni (4 September 1966 – 10 November 2021) was a Namibian politician. He was the leader of Namibia's All People's Party. Life Shixwameni was born in Shambyu, the traditional kingdom in the Kavango Region, and he earn ...

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