Time-aware risk
Zones carry separate risk bands for day, evening and night. The route you get at noon is not the route you get at 11pm.
Lower-risk routes for South African drivers
Go where the
trouble isn’t.
Tsamaya plans driving routes that think about risk, not just speed — steering you around known crime hotspots using public statistics and curated local knowledge. (say: tsa-MAH-ya — Sesotho/Setswana for “go”)
Routes consider risk — not a guarantee of safety. Always stay aware.
5metros mapped
2,500+risk zones
1,100+safe corridors
3risk bands by time of day
Why it exists
Most maps optimise for time. South African roads need more than that.
Hijackings, smash-and-grabs and robberies cluster in known areas — and they shift by time of day. A fast route can run straight through the worst of it. Tsamaya weighs that risk before it sends you.
- Avoids high- and elevated-risk zones, not just traffic
- Risk changes by day, evening and night — so do the routes
- Built on public crime stats + on-the-ground local knowledge
- Hands off cleanly to Google Maps or guides you in-app
How it works
Three quick steps
1
Set your destination
Search, tap the map, or long-press to drop a pin. Your start defaults to your live location.
2
We check the route
Tsamaya samples the fastest route and tests it against every active risk zone for the current time of day.
3
Re-routed around risk
If the direct line runs through danger, we steer it along safe corridors and show you exactly what was avoided.
What’s inside
A real navigation app — with a risk-aware brain.
Safe corridors
Curated “known-okay” roads the router prefers when threading past a hotspot — so detours stay sensible.
Smart re-routing
Only red and orange zones trigger a detour, and a sanity check rejects any bypass that’s wildly longer than direct.
Multi-metro
Live across Gauteng and Cape Town, with five metros mapped and more on the way.
Turn-by-turn, your way
Drive the lower-risk route with built-in turn-by-turn navigation — or hand off to Google Maps with the bypass waypoints baked in.
See the risk
Toggle the live zone overlay any time — every hotspot and corridor, colour-coded on the map.
See it in action
From “Where to?” to a lower-risk route in two taps.
Pick a destination, hit Go, and Tsamaya compares the direct line against a route built around risk — then tells you which areas it kept you out of.
Help us map the next metro.
Tsamaya is independent and self-funded. Sponsorship and donations pay for data, hosting and getting the app to more drivers.