The M24 road is a
metropolitan route in the
City of Tshwane in
Gauteng
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Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...
,
South Africa
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. It is in the city of
Centurion
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, connecting Valhalla with
Lyttelton.
Route
The M24 route begins at a junction with the
R55 route (Quagga Road) just south of
Claudius
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and north of
Sunderland Ridge. It begins by heading north-east as Stephanus Schoeman Road before turning to the east as Alaric Road to pass in-between the suburbs of
Thaba Tshwane
Thaba Tshwane is a military base (or military area) in Pretoria, South Africa.
Units and facilities
The oldest building in the complex is the South African Garrison Institute, what is now known as the Army College. Lord Kitchener laid the corn ...
to the north and Valhalla to the south. It reaches a junction with Paul Kruger Road at the South African Air Force College and becomes Paul Kruger Road eastwards to cross the
R101 route (Old Johannesburg Road). It turns to the south-east, bypassing the
Air Force Base Swartkop, to fly over the
N14 highway (
Ben Schoeman Highway
The Ben Schoeman Freeway or Ben Schoeman Highway is the main freeway between Johannesburg and Pretoria, and consists of portions of the M1, N1, and N14. Opened in 1968, it is named after former Minister of Transport Ben Schoeman, and is undou ...
) as Snake Valley Road and reach its end at a junction with the
M10 route (Wierda Road; Trichard Road) just west of
Kloofsig (north of
Lyttelton Manor).
References
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Metropolitan routes in Pretoria