N4 road (South Africa)

National route N4
Route information
Maintained by Bakwena and TRAC
Major junctions
West end:	A2 at the Botswana border near Lobatse
	N1 in Pretoria N12 in Witbank N11 near Middelburg
East end:	EN4 at the Mozambican border near Ressano Garcia
Location
Major cities:	Zeerust, Rustenburg, Brits, Pretoria, Witbank, Nelspruit
Highway system
Numbered routes of South Africa ← N3 N5 →

Numbered routes of South Africa

The N4 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Skilpadshek on the Botswana border, past Rustenburg, Pretoria, Witbank and Nelspruit, to Komatipoort on the Mozambique border. It forms the South African section of the Trans-Kalahari Corridor, which runs from Walvis Bay to Maputo, meaning that it links the east and west coasts of Southern Africa. Since the completion of the A2 through Botswana, the entire Corridor is now a world-class standard highway; it features at least one carriageway in each direction of high-speed traffic plus a paved shoulder for its entire length.

The South African section can be divided into two parts with Pretoria in the middle. The western portion links Gaborone in Botswana with Pretoria, while the eastern portion links Pretoria with Nelspruit and Maputo in Mozambique.

The eastern section from Pretoria to Middelburg is a four-lane dual-carriageway tolled freeway opened in 1968, with toll gates at Donkerhoek and just east of Middelburg. The freeway from Witbank to Middelburg was one of the first concrete freeways built in South Africa and the Ultra City was the first service station built on the sides of a freeway. At eMalahleni (formerly Witbank), the freeway converges with the N12 from Johannesburg. An alternative route to the N4, known as the R104, runs between Pretoria and Wonderfontein (east of Middelburg). Between Witbank and Middelburg the alternative is the dangerous R555. After Wonderfontein the toll road runs along the old alignment of the N4 until the Lebombo Border Post. From Middelburg to Belfast the N4 is a single-carriageway highway with two lanes in both directions; thereafter, the N4 is a wide shouldered single-carriageway highway. The section east of Middelburg has been significantly improved, including a northern bypass of Nelspruit, and now features some new grade-separated junctions. The N4 east of Pretoria forms part of the Maputo Corridor Toll Route.

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