MEDIA RELEASE

SANRAL DOES NOT ENFORCE SPEED LIMITS ON ITS NATIONAL ROAD NETWORK

Pretoria, 13 May 2024 – The South African National Roads Agency SOC Limited (SANRAL) would like to put it on record that a communique that is currently being circulated, purporting to emanate from SANRAL, that the roads agency is in the process of revising speed limits and enforcing stricter laws to reduce fatalities on the country’s roads is false.

“SANRAL has a distinct mandate to manage the country’s national road network. This mandate encompasses the financing, planning, development, improvement, maintenance, and rehabilitation of the national roads, as prescribed by the SANRAL Act of 1998. The SANRAL mandate does not include any enforcement rights, be that related to speed, safety or security,” said Vusi Mona, SANRAL’s General Manager for Communication and Marketing.

According to the communique that is being circulated, effective from 1 July, SANRAL “Highway Law” will implement adjusted limits across South Africa’s national highway system. This will include:

• Urban roads reduced from 60 km/h to 50 km/h
• Rural roads adjusted from 100 km/h to 80 km/h
• Highways and national routes capped at 110 km/h, down from 120 km/h
• Heavy vehicles limited to 90 km/h on all roads, and
• School zones to have a strict 30 km/h speed limit during school hours.

“We encourage members of the public to contact SANRAL’s hotline number on 0800 204 508 or email at sanral@tip-offs.co.za if they pick up suspicious information that they pick up being circulated. We also encourage members of the media can also reach out to our press office on pressoffice@nra.co.za for further clarity,” added Mona.

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