Rosslyn is an industrial suburb of

Akasia Akasia is a complex of suburbs north of Pretoria, part of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality. Formerly an independent municipality, the area surrounding Akasia is largely semi-rural and Akasia itself is built on former agricultural ho ...

, 29 km north-west of

Pretoria Pretoria () is South Africa's administrative capital, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to South Africa. Pretoria straddles the Apies River and extends ...

and part of the

City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (also known as the City of Tshwane) () is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng Province, South Africa. The Metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pr ...

in the

Gauteng Gauteng ( ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name in Sotho-Tswana languages means 'place of gold'. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only ...

province of

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

. This industrialized area is best known for its

automotive industry The automotive industry comprises a wide range of company, companies and organizations involved in the design, Business development, development, manufacturing, marketing, and selling of motor vehicles. It is one of the world's largest industry ...

, in particular the

BMW South Africa BMW South Africa (Pty) Ltd. is an automobile manufacturer based in Rosslyn, South Africa. The company is part of the BMW group. History As early as 1929, the first BMW motorcycle was imported to South Africa by a private individual. The first ...

factory, which opened in 1968, BMW's first factory outside Europe as well as the

Nissan South Africa Nissan South Africa Pty Ltd is an automobile manufacturer based in Rosslyn, South Africa, and a subsidiary of Nissan. History In the 1960s, the brothers Thys and Andries Bekker imported the first Datsun 1000 pick-up to South Africa.M. Compt ...

factory, manufacturing a vast range of motor vehicles, trucks, light delivery vans (LDV's, locally known as ''bakkies'') and 4X4 offroaders and the

IVECO IVECO, an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturing company. It designs and builds light, medium, and heavy commercial vehicles. The name IVECO first appeared in 1975 after a merger o ...

too has a plant. In 2012, vehicle manufacturing plants in South Africa contributed about 6.2% to the country's gross domestic product.

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Populated places in the City of Tshwane {{Gauteng-geo-stub