Kempton Park is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng province, South Africa.

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.

[2]: 17 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.

[2]: 17  The railway line did not go through Johannesburg, but passed to the east through the two farms with a station called Zuurfontein, which would be linked by a side-rail to the Zuid-Afrikaansche Fabrieken voor Ontplofbare Stoffen, a dynamite factory a few kilometres north west.

At the time of the attack the World Trade Centre was the venue for multi-party CODESA negotiations to end the apartheid system through the country's first multi-racial elections.

The invasion came after other clashes between police and right-wingers, such as the Battle of Ventersdorp, and much belligerent rhetoric from supremacists such as Eugène Terre'Blanche of the AWB.

The city is positioned on the urban fringe of the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area abutting semi-rural smallholdings and the rural countryside to its north-east.

As a result of its integration into the conurbation, the boundaries of Kempton Park are now contiguous with Thembisa to the north, Boksburg to the south, Midrand to the north-west, Germiston and Edenvale to the south-west, Benoni to the east and Modderfontein to the west.

North-west of Kempton Park lies the heavy industry suburb of Modderfontein with one of the main companies there, the AECI Dynamite factory.

From Sandton, the railway connects either north to Midrand, Centurion and Pretoria or south to Rosebank and Johannesburg.

The M57 links Kempton Park with Thembisa and Olifantsfontein to the north, Boksburg to the south and Germiston to the south-west.

André Stander was a police officer in Kempton Park CID from 1963 to 1980, before being jailed for bank robberies.