Kempton Park: From Humble Beginnings To Pivot Of Prosperity
This is a Very Special and Scarce Book.
It is number 1 of a limited Edition of 200.
The Book was gifted to the then Administrator of the Transvaal the late Mr Danie Hough. It was Signed and Inscribed by the then Mayor of Kempton Park, Board member R.J Verster on 7 May 1993. This book was bought from the personal Library of the late Mr Danie Hough.
Kempton Park: From Humble Beginnings To Pivot Of Prosperity.
Presentation to Commission of Inquiry: Application for City Status. 16 September 1992
Hardcover
ISBN 0300026633
Publisher: Town Council Of Kempton Park 1992 First Edition.
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The DJ has some limited signs of wear and tear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
Kempton Park is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng province, South Africa. It is part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It is situated south of Tembisa, one of the largest townships in South Africa, which is also part of Ekurhuleni. South Africa's busiest airport, O. R. Tambo International Airport is located in Kempton Park.
The name of the city is sometimes written as "Kemptonpark" in Afrikaans.
Kempton Park lies on what was two Boer farms in the South African Republic (ZAR). The first farm was Zuurfontein No 369 with the title deed issued to Johannes Stephanus Marais on 25 October 1859 and surveyed to be 3000 morgen on 12 December 1859. The second farm northwest of the first was registered to Cornelius Johannes Beukes in March 1865 and was called Rietfontein 32 IR.
After the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, 22 km southwest of the farms in 1886, a railway connecting Pretoria to Vereeniging and to the Cape line was constructed in the early 1890s. The railway line did not go through Johannesburg, but passed to the east through the two farms with a station called Zuurfontein. That station would be linked by a side-rail to the Zuid-Afrikaansche Fabrieken voor Ontplofbare Stoffen, a dynamite factory a few kilometres north west.
The city was established on 24 August 1903 when Karl Friedrich Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into 216 residential stands and named the new town Kempten after the German town in Bavaria of his birth. The name was anglicised into Kempton Park.
