KEMPTON PARK HISTORY AND INFORMATION

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Kempton Park is a large town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa, formerly in the Transvaal. 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 six major highschools (secondary schools) Hoërskool Jeugland, Kempton Hoër (Kempton High), Rhodesfield High School , Birchleigh Hoër, Norkem Park High and 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:

Spartan is a large industrial zone which holds many chemical manufacturing and other industrial sites.

Kempton Park also has a large Coal power plant named Kelvin power station.