Developed in the early 1980s and still relatively new, Randpark Ridge is bordered by several other suburbs including Weltevreden Park, Sundowner, Boskruin, Bromhof, Honeydew and Fairland.

[2] He added on to the original Boer farmhouse; two gabled sections to either side, and a dam, built over the spruit (stream) that is a tributary of the Klein Jukskei River.

[2] By 1994 the old farmhouse was bought by developers who demolished the burnt out section illegally and in 1996, fifteen townhouses were built around it.

[2] Regarded as the oldest brick house in Johannesburg it now stands in Frangipani Crescent, Randpark Ridge.

The area is serviced by one highway, namely the N1 Western Bypass which connects the vicinity to Sandton and Pretoria to the north and to Roodepoort and Soweto to the south.

The major routes are blocked in the morning and afternoon traffic, and this can make travel from the city centre much more difficult than usual.

[citation needed] No train service runs near the area and thus it is buses and minibus taxis that offer the only public transport to residents.