Welcome to Roads Branch

Overview: South Africa's road network

• South Africa has a road network of 750 000km's, the tenth longest network in the world
• The South African National Roads Agency Limited (Sanral) is currently managing about 21 403 km's, of which 84 percent are non-tolled and only 16 percent are tolled
• Provinces manage about 47 348 km's whereas 51 682km's is managed by municipalities
• The blocking on road infrastructure is estimated at R197b

* rounded estimate

How South Africa's road network compares to the world

• South Africa has the 10th Longest Total (750 000 Road Length) and 18th Longest Paved Road Network in the World
• Roads represent one of the largest public infrastructure investments in the most countries
• South African Road Replacement Cost is R2 Trillion

Through the S'hamba Sonke Programme

• 1100 km's of surafced road were rehabilitated
• 3000 km's of surfaced roads sealed
• 3926 km's of roads gravelled
• We patched more than 1.4 million squares metres of potholes
• 147 00 km's of roads bladed and
• 30 billion rand to create over 23 500 fulltime equivalent jobs in the 2014/15 financial year spent
• There are over 6 million more vehicles on our roads today than they were in 1994. The traffic looks set to continue growing - much of it on roads that are already operating at close to capacity during busy periods

Roads Service offerings

• Regulate road traffic management
• Ensure the maintenance and development of an integrated road network through the development of standards and guidelines and oversight of the road agencies and provincial road expenditure