Democratic Turnhalle Alliance of Namibia

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The Democratic Turnhalle Alliance (German: Demokratische Turnhallenallianz) is a political party in Namibia. At the last legislative elections, 15 and 16 November 2004, the party won 5% of the popular vote and 4 out of 78 seats. The DTA is an associate member of the International Democrat Union, a transnational grouping of national political parties generally identified with political conservatism.

The name comes from the old drill hall (in German Turnhalle) in Windhoek, where constitutional negotiations were held from 1975-1977. The party was founded in November 1977 by participants in the Turnhalle Constitutional Conference who walked out of the Constitutional Committee over the National Party's insistence on retaining some apartheid legislation in the new constitution.