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About Randpark Ridge

Randpark Ridge is an upmarket suburb of Randburg, South Africa. It is located in Region C of the City of Johannesburg. It fell into the town of Randburg during the apartheid era. 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. == History == The suburb has its origins as part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Boschkop, named after the distinctive hill to north of the suburb, which is now the Boschkop Nature Reserve in the suburb of Boskruin. On this land, an old brick farm house was supposedly built on the land in around 1860. In 1903 the farm was owned by a J. Labuschagne and he sold part of the original land and farm house to John Dale Lace. 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. At this stage the house had a total of 25 rooms. He would lose his 1300-acre country estate to Standard Bank, who sold it to an Irishman, Tom Kelly, in 1927.