Kempton Park, Gauteng
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Kempton Park is a large town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1903 when Karl Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into residential stands and named the new village Kempten after the Bavarian town of his birth. The name was anglicised into Kempton Park. In 1952 the Jan Smuts Airport was built on land next to the town. The airport's name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s. Kempton Park has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. Kempton Park is located north-east of Johannesburg and south of Pretoria lying in the middle of the two cities.
The city has 5 Major High-schools (Secondary Schools) Hoërskool Jeugland, Kempton Hoër (Kempton High), Birchleigh Hoër, Norkem Park High, Sir Pierre van Ryneveld.
Kempton Park is next to one of the largest townships in South-Africa called Tembisa.
Kempton Park was declared a City in 1992 and has the following suburbs: Birchleigh, Kempton Park West, Edleen, Van Riebeek Park, Glen Marais, Allen Grove, Nimrod Park, Rhodesfield, Bonaero Park, Terenure,Esther Park, Aston Manor, Spartan, Croyden.
Spartan is a large industrial zone which holds many chemical manufacturing and other industrial sites.
Kempton also has a large Coal power plant called "kelvin power station"
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A City now incorporated into Ekhurhuleni Municipal district. The South African Interational airport, O.R.Tambo is situated in Kempton Park. A wealthy area is a development of the large tracts of land owned by the Erasmus family. These developments are the Blue Gill and Glen Erasmia security villages, where the rich live in their high security compounds and are subjected to higher rates and an increasing amount of air traffic over their homes.kenneth
