Nigel is a small gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa, south-east of Johannesburg.

[2]: 286 Today the town is focused primarily on mining and also has various heavy industries.

Nigel's municipal government became part of the much larger City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality following the creation of new local government structures in 2000, along with most of rest of the East Rand.

On 1 August 2010, a fire at the Pieter Wessels old age home led to the deaths of 22 people.

[4] Dennis Hardman, Olympic shooter for Zimbabwe, was born in Nigel in 1943.