Kempton Park is a city on the
East Rand in the
Gauteng province,
South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality in the
Transvaal, Kempton Park no longer has its own municipal government, and has been part of the
Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. Kempton Park is located north-east of
Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, and south of
Pretoria, the administrative capital. It is situated next to
Tembisa, one of the largest
townships in South Africa. The name of the city is sometimes written as "Kemptonpark" in
Afrikaans.