Originally Posted by roundtheworld
South African roads are better than most if not any US roads or highways.
The quality of hte pavement, lightning and marking is exceptional, and the US could learn from them.
I drove from Pretoria to the Sun City / Pilanesburg park area and did not find the signs and markings to be at all clear on the major motorways around Pretoria (though they seemed clearer once I got onto the smaller roads). The rental car company map was so vague and the signs so confusing that we got turned around multiple times and a drive that should have taken about 2 hours ended up taking over 4. I think that in general the signs on the US highway system are far clearer than those I saw in that area of South Africa.