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35-546: The station was one of the first to go on air on 25 October 1996, this was during the birth of community radio in South Africa in the early nineties, The station was founded as East Rand Stereo and initially broadcast from a studio in Casseldale Springs with a small reception area. Its first license was granted for three and a half days a week, sharing its 93.9 FM frequency with another community radio station. It received

70-620: A license in 1999 to broadcast seven days a week, 24 hours a day. In 2004 they became one of the first community radio stations to receive a permanent four-year license, and in 2009 the station received its new converted permanent class license under the new Electronic Communication Act, which replaced all previous broadcasting acts. Its current studio in located in Springs Mall. Ekurhuleni FM operates primarily from their studio offices in Springs Mall. The address is: Shop U18 Springs Mall, 19 Jan Smuts Rd, Selection Park, Springs, 1559 They also have

105-553: A secondary studio in Emperors Palace, Kempton Park . Ekurhuleni FM currently broadcasts from Springs and supplies local entertainment and news to most parts of Ekurhuleni, also known as the East Rand. Areas currently covered include Springs, Brakpan, Benoni, Parts of Boksburg, Parts of Kempton Park, Parts of Germiston and Parts of Alberton. They also have various streaming services for listeners outside of this range. Ekurhuleni FM

140-662: Is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng province , South Africa . It is part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality . It is situated south of Thembisa , one of the largest townships in South Africa, which is also part of Ekurhuleni. South Africa's busiest airport, O. R. Tambo International Airport is located in Kempton Park. The name of the city is sometimes written as "Kemptonpark" in Afrikaans . Kempton Park lies on what

175-440: Is a well-known attraction in the area. In 2005 Ekurhuleni FM once again became a leader in the industry, when it became the first community radio station in South Africa to broadcast using RCS (Radio Computer Software), which was in the past only used by Larger Commercial Radio Stations. Ekurhuleni FM utilizes G-Selector music scheduling and Zetta playout software from Radio Computing Services (RCS). Ekurhuleni FM broadcasts on

210-465: Is considered the oldest written reference of any German city. So far no archaeological evidence could be found that this Celtic settlement really existed. In 15 BC Roman troops led by Nero Claudius Drusus and his brother Tiberius conquered and destroyed the existing Celtic settlement. In the following years the city, whose name was Latinized as Cambodunum , was rebuilt on a classical Roman city plan with baths, forum and temples. Initially in wood,

245-617: Is in Kempton Park. The city has ten major schools: The Kempton Park Golf Course, first designed in 1965, in Spartan, is known as the club where Ernie Els learnt how to play golf. The suburb of Rhodesfield just south of the city centre has got a station on the Gautrain rail, named the Rhodesfield station . The O. R. Tambo International Airport has the eastern terminus of the Gautrain rail at

280-612: Is the largest town of Allgäu , in Swabia , Bavaria , Germany . The population was about 68,000 in 2016. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts , but was later taken over by the Romans , who called the town Cambodunum . Kempten is the oldest urban settlement (town) in Germany. The Greek geographer Strabo mentions in 50 BC a town of the Celtic Estiones named Kambodunon . This

315-404: Is well known for its variety and fun-to-listen-to music selection, day and night and also broadcasts various focused programs such as Gospel, Country, Boeremusiek and Classical Music Ekurhuleni FM is proud to be one of few community radio stations to operate an Outside Broadcast Unit. Their outside Outside broadcast studio is available for event and corporate promotions across Ekurhuleni, This unit

350-673: The A 7 autobahn ( Würzburg – Ulm – Füssen ). Bundesstraßen B 12 (partly as A 980 autobahn), B 19 and B 309 also intersect in Kempten. The city is on the Buchloe–Lindau railway , opened as part of the Ludwig South-North Railway in 1852, and Kempten station currently boasts good InterCity and EuroCity rail connections. The city bus system is operated by Kemptener Verkehrsbetriebe, which operates over 20 lines. The Kempten University of Applied Sciences started in

385-627: The Abbey of Saint Gall , Magnus von Füssen and Theodor. This new monastery's first abbot was one Audogar. Through the financial and lobbyist support of Charlemagne ’s wife Hildegard , an Allemannic princess, the monastery came to be one of the most privileged of the Frankish Empire . After the abbey had several times been ravaged by the Magyars , the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg , Ulrich of Augsburg , who

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420-643: The Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) and other paramilitary White Nationalist Afrikaner groups stormed the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park. 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. These negotiations were strongly opposed by some White groups in South Africa. The invasion came after other clashes between police and right-wingers, such as

455-556: The Battle of Ventersdorp , and much belligerent rhetoric from supremacists such as Eugène Terre'Blanche of the AWB. Kempton Park lies in the westernmost part of the East Rand and the City of Ekurhuleni , bordering with the City of Johannesburg to the west. The city is positioned on the urban fringe of the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area abutting semi-rural smallholdings and

490-594: The OR Tambo station . The highspeed Gautrain Rail links the airport as well as Rhodesfield with the Sandton station in the west. This section from OR Tambo to Sandton opened on 8 June 2010, in time for the 2010 FIFA World Cup . From Sandton, the railway connects either north to Midrand , Centurion and Pretoria or south to Rosebank and Johannesburg . The R21 is the major freeway that runs through Kempton Park. It enters

525-425: The census of 2011 , the population of Kempton Park consisted of 171,575 people living in 53,777 households. 47% of the people described themselves as " White ", 46% as " Black African " and 2% as " Coloured ". 35% spoke Afrikaans as their first language and 26% spoke English . Spartan is a large industrial zone which houses many chemical manufacturing and other industrial sites. North-west of Kempton Park lies

560-469: The 93.9 MHz Radio Frequency Ekurhuleni FM is the proud recipient of the 2007 VONK Music Award for its outstanding support towards the Afrikaans music industry of South Africa. They also won an award in 2007 from ABC Ulwazi for producing and broadcasting outstanding educational programming on HIV and AIDS and won a 2008 SABC News Award for its Afrikaans News. Kempton Park, Gauteng Kempton Park

595-503: The city from Boksburg in the south, bypassing the O.R. Tambo International Airport and Kempton Park CBD before heading north towards Pretoria . The R24 (Albertina Sisulu Freeway) is a freeway in the south of the city starting at an interchange with the R21 at the O.R. Tambo International Airport, and continues south-west towards Edenvale and Johannesburg . The R25 crosses Kempton Park’s northern suburbs from north-east to south-west linking

630-442: The city was later rebuilt in stone after a devastating fire that destroyed almost the entire city in the year 69 AD. The city possibly served as provincial capital of Raetia during the first century before Augsburg took over this role. Extensive archaeological excavations at the end of the 19th century and again during the 1950s at what were then the outskirts of Kempten unearthed the extensive structural foundations. The city

665-421: The city with Bapsfontein and Bronkhorstspruit to the north-east and Johannesburg to the south-west. Kempton Park is also served by a number of metropolitan routes linking it to surrounding towns and cities in the East Rand ( City of Ekurhuleni ). The M16 links Kempton Park with Edenvale to the south-west. The M32 links Kempton Park with Benoni to the east. The M43 links Kempton Park with Boksburg to

700-620: The end of the Thirty Years' War . During the Napoleonic Wars the Dukedom-Abbey and Imperial City came under Bavarian rule (1802–03). Finally, in 1819, the two rival cities were united into a single communal entity. The city was the location of two subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp during World War II , each with about 700 inmates. Kempten is well connected with the region through

735-538: The farms in 1886, a railway connecting Pretoria to Vereeniging and to the Cape line was constructed in the early 1890s. 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. The city

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770-555: The flag carrier of South Africa, and subsidiary South African Express have their head offices in Kempton Park. Airlink , a regional South African airline, has its headquarters on the grounds of OR Tambo Airport. Mango , a low cost airline, is headquartered on the grounds of OR Tambo. Federal Air has its headquarters on the OR Tambo grounds. 1time had its head office in the Isando Industrial Park. Safair 's head office

805-570: The heavy industry suburb of Modderfontein with one of the main companies there, the AECI Dynamite factory. Kempton Park also has a large coal power station named Kelvin power station which supplies power to the City of Johannesburg . The Emperor's Palace Casino is also located in Kempton Park, just south of the airport. The international airport plays a dominant role in the local economy. Several airline and other aviation related companies are headquartered in Kempton Park. South African Airways ,

840-608: The imperial forces and the Swedish troops respectively. In 1652 Roman Giel of Gielsberg, the Abbot of Kempten , commissioned the architects Michael Beer and Johann Serro from Graubünden to build St. Lorenz Basilica as a new church to serve the parish and monastery, including a representative residence for the Duke-Abbots. This is acknowledged as the first large church built in Germany after

875-567: The last property rights held by the abbots in the Imperial City were sold in the so-called "Great Purchase", marking the start of the co-existence of two independent cities next to each other, each bearing the same name. More conflict arose in 1527 after the Imperial City converted to Protestantism in direct opposition to the Catholic monastery (and Free City). During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1632–33), both cities were destroyed by

910-410: 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. Kempton Park was declared a city in 1992 and has the following suburbs: In

945-503: The south. Kempton Park is also served internally by metropolitan routes including the M84 , M88 , M89 , M90 , M91 , M92 and M96 . André Stander was a police officer in Kempton Park CID from 1963 to 1980, before being jailed for bank robberies. Kempten im Allg%C3%A4u Kempten ( German: [ˈkɛmptn̩] ; Swabian : Kempte [ˈkɛmptə] )

980-422: The south. The M45 links Kempton Park with Benoni to the east. The M57 links Kempton Park with Thembisa and Olifantsfontein to the north, Boksburg to the south and Germiston to the south-west. The M59 passes in-between Kempton Park and Edenvale. The M99 links Kempton Park with Bedfordview and Germiston to the south-west. The M39 connects Kempton Park with Midrand to the north-west and Germiston to

1015-448: The winter semester of 1978–79 with 89 students and since then expanded and now accommodates more than 2800 students in eight degree courses: There are also three college preparatory schools, called Gymnasium, (Allgäu-Gymnasium, Hildegardis-Gymnasium, Carl-von-Linde-Gymnasium) offering secondary education to the entire region of the Allgäu. The association football team FC Kempten play at

1050-613: Was again destroyed in 233 AD by the Alemanni , a Suebic tribe. The original site of Cambodunum was then abandoned and the settlement moved to a strategically safer location on the Burghalde hill overlooking the river Iller . In the middle of the 5th century the last Roman troops had left the area and the city was entirely taken over by the Alemanni. After the Romans abandoned the settlement, it

1085-670: Was also Abbot of Kempten , began the rebuilding of both the monastery and the city in 941. In 1213, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots members of the Reichstag and granted the Abbot of Kempten the right to bear the title of Duke. However in 1289, King Rudolf I of Germany also granted special privileges to the urban settlement in the river valley, making it the Free Imperial City of Kempten . In 1525

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1120-464: Was built on land next to the community, and opened in 1953. The airport's name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s and then to OR Tambo International Airport in 2006. Kempton Park has been part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. The storming of Kempton Park World Trade Centre took place on 25 June 1993 when approximately three thousand members of

1155-524: Was established on 24 August 1903 when Karl Friedrich Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into 216 residential stands and named the new town Kempten after the German town in Bavaria of his birth. The name was anglicised into Kempton Park. O. R. Tambo International Airport (Africa's busiest airport) is located in Kempton Park. In 1952, the airport, then known as Jan Smuts International Airport,

1190-530: Was moved from the hill down to the plains located next to the river Iller. In written sources, the town appears as Cambidano . Being still predominantly Alemannic, the town once more was destroyed by the Franks in 683 as a consequence of the city's support of an uprising against the Frankish kingdom. Around 700 a monastery — Kempten Abbey — was built, the first in the Allgäu region, founded by two Benedictine monks from

1225-646: Was two Boer farms in the South African Republic (ZAR). 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. The second farm northwest of the first was registered to Cornelius Johannes Beukes in March 1865 and was called Rietfontein 32 IR . After the discovery of gold in Johannesburg, 22 km southwest of

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