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By | January 10, 2022

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
Table. An overview of the South African road network
Authority Paved Gravel Total
Sanral 21 403 0 21 403
Provinces – 9 47 348 226 273 273 621
Metros – 8 51 682 14 461 66 143
Municipalities 37 691 219 223 256 914
Total 158 124 459 957 618 081
Un-Proclaimed (Estimate    131 919 131 919
Estimated Total  158 124 591 876 750 000

* 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