page_title: R24 (South Africa)
section_title: Gauteng
hierarchical_section_title: R24 (South Africa) / Route / Gauteng
caption_attribution_description: English: The main road through Magaliesberg, the R24
context_page_description: The R24 is a major East-West provincial route in the Gauteng and North West provinces that links OR Tambo International Airport with Rustenburg via Johannesburg, Krugersdorp and Magaliesburg. The process of renaming the streets and freeway that form the route from Krugersdorp eastward to OR Tambo International after anti-apartheid stalwart Albertina Sisulu was completed in 2013.
  After passing through Central Johannesburg and some of Johannesburg's eastern suburbs, the route becomes a freeway outside Eastgate Shopping Centre in Bedfordview, a section which is maintained by the Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport, part of the Gauteng Provincial Government. This freeway section of the route intersects with the N3 and the N12 at Gillooly's Interchange. There are offramps that lead to Edenvale, and parts of Kempton Park, before the road ends in the vicinity of OR Tambo International Airport, at the R21 leading to Pretoria and Boksburg.
context_section_description: The R24 begins at Johannesburg International Airport (OR Tambo International Airport) in the East Rand (Ekurhuleni), Gauteng.
  It heads west as a freeway, beginning with an interchange with the R21 (Pretoria-Boksburg Highway), then heads south-west through the southern edge of Kempton Park (where it has a junction at Barbara Road - M59) and Edenvale (where it has a junction at Van Riebeeck Road, also called Edenvale Road - M37).
  In Bedfordview (after The Edenvale off-ramp), the R24 joins the N12 Freeway from Mpumalanga westwards towards Johannesburg for almost 2 km, with an e-toll gantry on that section of the national road (open road tolling; the only toll on the entire R24 Route) (there is no e-toll on the eastward side of the freeway).
  Many motorists have complained of the Loerie e-toll being positioned on the R24, as they believe that the R24 was meant to be a toll-free route for its entire length in which nobody would be charged for transporting from Johannesburg's Airport in Kempton Park to Johannesburg Central. As the R24 in Gauteng is not a route maintained by SANRAL and is not indicated as a toll road, motorists and companies wonder why motorists are being charged for being on a National Road for only 1 km on the route from Johannesburg's Airport to Johannesburg's city centre. But SANRAL has since changed the signs on both highways connected (N12 & R24) so as for them to indicate that there is an e-toll ahead when travelling westwards to the N3 Gillooly's interchange (every lane on the N12 and R24 west cosigned section passes through the gantry).
  Right after the e-toll, at the Gillooly's Interchange with the N3, the N12 leaves the westerly highway and joins the N3 Eastern Bypass southwards on the Johannesburg Ring Road, leaving the R24 as the straight road west into Johannesburg. Just after the interchange with the N3 & N12, it passes north of the Eastgate Shopping Centre and crosses the border between the City Of Ekurhuleni and the City of Johannesburg and the R24 stops being a freeway.
  It passes through some of Johannesburg's eastern suburbs in a south-westerly direction, including Bruma and Kensington, before passing into Johannesburg CBD and becomes two one-way streets (one going east as Albertina Sisulu Road, formerly Market Street, and the other west as Commissioner Street). The Carlton Centre, the second tallest building in Africa (the tallest office building in Africa), is located on Commissioner Street. Just before crossing under Johannesburg's M1 Freeway at the suburb of Newtown, it intersects with the R41 Road (Main Reef Road) and becomes one street westwards (no longer one-way streets). The R41 route is an alternative route to the R24 route as they both go west to Roodepoort.
  Next, the R24 runs west to Roodepoort. It passes through the Fordsburg, Mayfair, Mayfair West, Langlaagte North, Crosby, Industria (where it continues by a left & right turn) and Bosmont suburbs before it crosses the N1 Highway (Johannesburg Western Bypass; Johannesburg Ring Road) at the Maraisburg junction and enters Roodepoort. After passing through the Maraisburg and Florida suburbs, the R24 runs in a northwesterly direction through Roodepoort Central. After bypassing Westgate Shopping Centre, the R24 leaves the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and enters Krugersdorp in the Mogale City Local Municipality.
  Through Krugersdorp, it first passes by Factoria before passing through the southern end of Krugersdorp CBD, where it intersects with the R28 Route. After Krugersdorp West, the R24 makes up the southern border of the Krugersdorp Game Reserve. It then heads north-west, crossing the N14 National Route, towards Magaliesburg, which is a holiday and weekend destination for people of Johannesburg And Pretoria. On this section, before Magaliesburg, it passes by the Tarlton International Raceway.
caption: The R24 forms the main road through Magaliesburg
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