Rooiels Ratepayers Association
Our Vision
To nurture Rooiels as a caring community located in the UNESCO Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, with as little as possible impact on the indigenous fauna, flora and landscape in which we live.
About RERA
The Rooiels Ratepayers Association (RERA) has been through many iterations in our 53 years, all of them seeking to manage the inevitable challenges of the growing number of us who want to live in this beautiful place between the wilderness and the sea, while striving to preserve and protect our fauna and flora, night skies and dusty, windswept peace.
Today we boast a truly inclusive constitution, and are proud to explicitly represent and offer membership to all Rooielsers. We strive to manage the village’s affairs with respect for all opinions, communicating our efforts and decsisions in a timely and honest fashion, and conducting our affairs openly and with courtesy.
Visit the History and FAQs page to learn more.
Latest updates
Our mission
Our mission is to work with Ratepayers and residents, local government and other authorities to help ensure that policies, regulations, strategies and the delivery of services serve the interests of ratepayers, the community, biodiversity and the natural character of Rooiels.
Find out more on the What We Do page.
Join RERA
RERA is Rooiels’ collective effort to make and keep our village a wonderful place to live or visit. Our main job is to help the ratepayers and residents of Rooiels get the best service possible from Overstrand Municipality and the Provincial administration. We do much more around the village too and work in close harmony with the Conservancy and other village organisations. The greater our membership the more influence we have where it matters. So please join our highly effective effort!
Annual membership fees
Becoming a Member of RERA is easier (and cheaper) than you think!
🗣️ Ordinary members: R300 per household
👤 Associate members: R150 per household
Those who pay rates on a Rooiels property may join as an Ordinary Member. Tenants, family members and regular visitors may join as an Associate Member.
While under our constitution only Ordinary members have a vote, our practice is to ensure all are allowed to influence our actions and formal voting is only ever a last resort.
Click the button to join now or go to the membership information page to find out more.
Get Involved
Once you’ve joined as a member, please consider joining our executive team. You can do this at anytime by volunteering to be a co-opted member, helping with a specific issue or portfolio, or by standing for election to the RERA Exco at our AGM each December /January. Explore the areas we’re focused on on the What We Do page.
To do either, all you need do is get in touch with our Chair at rera.chair@rera.org.za.
Reporting
Go to our Reporting page to see documents from our AGM and Exco meetings, or to read RERA’s Constitution.
Contact us
If you have a question, concern, or enquiry, please contact the RERA Chair at rera.chair@rooiels.org.za.
- Please mail rera.chair@rooiels.org.za for all operational enquiries.
- Please mail rera.admin@rooiels.org.za for all membership and banking enquiries.
- We post regularly on the 3 village WhatsApp Groups.
Our 2026 Executive Committee
- Tom Baigrie (Chair)
- Nigel Burls (Vice Chair)
- Lesley Lundie (Treasurer and membership secretary)
- Christoph Weichsler (Firewise management)
- Steve Tetluk (Technology & communications management)
- John Biesman-Simons (Non-exec)
We are grateful to our co-opted members, Anuta Scholz and Alison Lewis, and our consultant adviser Achim Halpaap.
If you’re looking for something you don’t see on this page, please contact us at rera@rooiels.org.za and we’ll check our archive.