The M77 is a short metropolitan route in

Greater Johannesburg The term Greater Johannesburg may refer to: * The area governed by the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality#Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council, Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (GJMC) from 1995 to 2000. * The current City ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. It connects Moroka in

Soweto Soweto () is a Township (South Africa), township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western T ...

with

Roodepoort Roodepoort ( ) is a city in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality, Roodepoort became part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg ...

via

Dobsonville Dobsonville is a Township (South Africa), township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, Gauteng, Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, Gauteng, Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, wh ...

. For its entire route, it is named Elias Motsoaledi Road.

Route

The M77 begins at a junction with the M68 in the Moroka section of

. It heads northwards for 10 kilometres, through Jabavu (where it meets the western terminus of the M79) and

(where it meets the northern terminus of the M72 and the western terminus of the M70), to exit Soweto and reach its end at a junction with the R41 in

, in the suburb of Cresswell Park (south of the town centre).

References

Streets and roads of Johannesburg Metropolitan routes in Johannesburg {{SouthAfrica-road-stub