Rosslyn, South Africa
Appearance
Rosslyn | |
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Coordinates: 25°37′30″S 28°05′20″E / 25.625°S 28.089°E | |
Country | South Africa |
Province | Gauteng |
Municipality | City of Tshwane |
Main Place | Akasia |
Area | |
• Total | 0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi) |
Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,960 |
• Density | 3,300/km2 (8,600/sq mi) |
Racial makeup (2011) | |
• Black African | 98.8% |
• Coloured | 0.2% |
• White | 0.7% |
• Other | 0.2% |
First languages (2011) | |
• Northern Sotho | 26.4% |
• Tswana | 24.1% |
• English | 11.1% |
• Zulu | 9.9% |
• Other | 28.6% |
Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
Postal code (street) | 0182 |
PO box | 0200 |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Tshwane_BMW_plant.jpg/220px-Tshwane_BMW_plant.jpg)
Rosslyn is an industrial suburb of Akasia, 29 km north-west of Pretoria and part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa.[2]
This industrialized area is best known for its automotive industry, in particular the BMW South Africa factory, which opened in 1968, BMW's first factory outside Europe[3] as well as the Nissan South Africa factory, manufacturing a vast range of motor vehicles, trucks, light delivery vans (LDV's, locally known as bakkies) and 4X4 offroaders and the IVECO too has a plant.[4]
In 2012, vehicle manufacturing plants in South Africa contributed about 6.2% to the country's gross domestic product.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Sub Place Rosslyn". Census 2011.
- ^ Google maps
- ^ History of the BMW plant in Rosslyn
- ^ "IVECO South Africa". IVECO. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Singh, Sukasha (April 2012). "BMW to add 600 jobs at Rosslyn plant". Mail&Guardian. Retrieved 30 July 2013.