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Lower-risk driving routes in Rustenburg

Rustenburg sits on the N4 between Pretoria and the Botswana border, with the platinum belt on either side of it. A lot of the driving here is commuting to and from the mines at shift change, plus through-traffic on the N4 and the weekend run up the R565 to Sun City. The map covers the town and the roads that feed it.

98risk zones mapped
38in the top band at midday
49in the top band after dark

What the data looks like here

98 mapped areas across Rustenburg.

Every area is rated three times over, once each for daytime, evening and night, because risk in South African metros does not hold still across a day. Here is how Rustenburg’s 98 areas fall across the bands at each of those hours.

Figures read directly from the live database, not typed by hand. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. No area in the country is rated worse by day than it is at night, so the night bar is also the worst case.

  • Daytime05:00 to 17:30 39%
  • Evening17:30 to 19:30 45%
  • Night19:30 to 05:00 50%

The right-hand figure is the share of Rustenburg’s mapped areas sitting in the highest band at that hour.

  • Highest avoided by default on the strictest setting
  • Elevated always costed, avoided on the strictest setting
  • Caution costed but never avoided, since it is too widespread to route around
  • No penalty checked and carries no routing cost
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Rustenburg: mapped areas by risk band, for each time of day
Time of dayHighestElevatedCautionNo penalty
Daytime3818384
Evening4429223
Night493973

Driving here

What matters on Rustenburg’s roads

  • The N4 is mapped through the town and out both sides. It carries the freight and most of the long-distance traffic, and it is rated separately for day, evening and night.
  • The R565 to Sun City and the R24 toward Johannesburg are the two roads most visitors use, and both are on the map from end to end.
  • Shift traffic around the mines means a lot of the local driving happens before dawn and after dark, which is when the ratings differ most from the daytime picture.

Tsamaya rates roads and routes. It does not publish a list of neighbourhoods, and the app never labels a place for anyone other than the driver about to pass through it.

Questions

Common questions about Rustenburg

Does the Rustenburg map join up with Pilanesberg?

Yes. The two maps meet along the R565, so a trip from town to Sun City or the park gates is handled as one drive.

Is the N4 covered outside the town?

The N4 is mapped through Rustenburg and the approaches on both sides of it. Beyond the mapped area the app still navigates normally; it simply has no risk data to apply.

Also mapped

Other metros

Johannesburg Gauteng 800 zones Cape Town Western Cape 909 zones Pretoria Gauteng 486 zones Ekurhuleni Gauteng 732 zones West Rand Gauteng 130 zones Secunda Mpumalanga 63 zones Stellenbosch Western Cape 32 zones Pilanesberg North West 43 zones Mossel Bay Western Cape 58 zones Durban KwaZulu-Natal 791 zones Gqeberha Eastern Cape 254 zones

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