The R41 is a

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, that connects

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ...

with

Randfontein Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Baronet, JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in ...

via

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 ...

Route

The R41 route begins in the

Ferreirasdorp Ferreirasdorp (or Ferreirastown) is an inner-city suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. First known as Ferreira's Camp () and later Ferreira's Township, it is the oldest par ...

suburb of

(adjacent to Newtown), at an intersection with the two one-way-streets of the R24 route (Albertina Sisulu Road and Commissioner Street). The route begins by going west-south-west, named Main Reef Road, passing under the M1 highway (De Villiers Graaff Motorway) and meeting the western end of the R29 route in the

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suburb. It heads south-west through Crown North to enter

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(west of

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), where it meets the western end of the M2 Johannesburg-Germiston Highway (Francois Oberholzer Freeway), meets the M17 road (Crownwood Road) and continues west, bypassing various Chinese marts and shopping centres in the area. North of Riverlea (south of

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), the R41 meets Johannesburg's M5 road (Nasrec Road), which heads south to

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and

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. Continuing west, the R41 crosses over the N1 highway ( Johannesburg Western Bypass) as a flyover and enters the southern suburbs of

. It bypasses

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and the old Roodepoort CBD to the south, where it meets the south-western terminus of the R564 (Westlake Road) and the northern terminus of the M77 (Elias Motsoaledi Street) before going west towards Randfontein. At this point, the street name changes from Main Reef Road to Randfontein Road. The R24 road (Albertina Sisulu Road) is an alternative route between Johannesburg and Roodepoort. After Roodepoort, the R41 continues westwards, crosses the R558 road and quickly enters the

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, bypassing the township of

Kagiso Kagiso is a township situated at the southern end of the Mogale City Local Municipality, just south of Krugersdorp in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The word ''kagiso'' means peace in Tswana. Kagiso's administration comprises five wards, each ...

. It continues westwards to enter the town of Randfontein in the

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. North of

Central, the R41 meets the R28 road (coming from

Krugersdorp Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for ''Kruger's Town'') is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 by Marthinus Pretorius and Abner Cohen. Following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, a need arose for a ...

) and then makes a left and right turn to continue westwards as Lazar Street. It heads west for 29 kilometres, through Randfontein Rural and a few farming properties, to end at an intersection with the R500 road, 3 kilometres south of the R500's intersection with the N14 national route.

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