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Lower-risk driving routes in West Rand

Roodepoort, Krugersdorp, Randfontein and the mining belt west of Johannesburg. It is a smaller map than those for the metros to the east and a noticeably different one, because a large share of it has been checked and rated as carrying no penalty rather than simply having nothing recorded.

Rated ground in West Rand, with 3 reported hotspots. Tsamaya names roads, never neighbourhoods.

Areas rated high risk, by time of day

49

areas rated high risk at night, 19:30 to 05:00

  • Daytime, 05:00 to 17:30 25
  • Evening, 17:30 to 19:30 32
  • Night, 19:30 to 05:00 49

Of the 130 rated areas in West Rand, these are the ones at the highest of the four risk levels, for each of the three times of day. Every figure comes straight from the live database, read on 3 November 2026. The lowest band means an area was checked and carries no routing penalty, which is different from an area we have no data for. A rating describes an area's history of vehicle crime, not what is happening on a street right now: lower risk is not no risk.

Hotspots

3 reported hotspots in West Rand

Off-ramps, intersections and stretches of road where hijackings and smash-and-grabs have been reported. The app marks them on the map and gives a spoken heads-up as you approach one. They are awareness only: a hotspot never changes your route, and this is not a complete list.

Hijacking 3

  • Cradlestone Mall traffic light, N14
  • N14 between Ventersdorp and Krugersdorp
  • R28 stop sign

Compiled from public reporting (SAPS, NHPA/Arrive Alive, regional news). Approximate and not a complete list. Positions are approximate. Each hotspot is labelled by its road: Tsamaya names roads, never the neighbourhoods around them.

Driving here

What to know on these roads

  1. 01

    The N14 and the R28 are the two routes most West Rand driving depends on, and both are mapped end to end.

  2. 02

    Plenty of the West Rand has been checked and found to carry no penalty. That is different from having no data at all. One means we looked, the other means we have not got there yet.

  3. 03

    The run into Johannesburg on the N1 and the M5 is covered the whole way, since both metros are live.

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

West Rand, asked

Yes, both are inside the mapped West Rand area, along with Randfontein and the surrounding routes.

It is smaller and less densely populated, so there is genuinely less to map. The lower count reflects the size of the place, not how well we have covered it.

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