Rosslyn is an industrial

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

of Akasia, 29 km north-west of

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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 (South Africa), metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa. The metro ...

in the

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

province of

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. This industrialized area is best known for its

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, in particular the BMW South Africa factory, which opened in 1968. It was BMW's first factory outside of Europe.

Nissan South Africa Nissan South Africa Pty Ltd is an automobile manufacturer based in Rosslyn, Gauteng, Rosslyn, South Africa, and a subsidiary of Nissan. History In the 1960s, the brothers Thys and Andries Bekker imported the first Nissan Sunny, Datsun 1000 pi ...

also maintains a factory there, manufacturing a vast range of motor vehicles, trucks, light delivery vans ''(locally known as "bakkies")'' and 4X4 offroaders.

Iveco Iveco S.p.A., an acronym for Industrial Vehicles Corporation, is an Italian multinational transport vehicle manufacturing company with headquarters in Turin, Italy. It designs and builds light, medium, and heavy Commercial vehicle, commercial veh ...

also operates a plant in the area. 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