South African Road Signs

REGULATORY SIGNS
Regulatory signs are used to regulate the actions of road users.

Regulatory signs may be used to indicate a regulation applicable in the interests of
road safety, such as speed limit signs. Stop signs, yield signs, or traffic signals are
used to optimise traffic flow conditions.

Control Signs
Command Signs
Prohibitions Signs
Reservation Signs
Comprehensive Signs
Secondary Signs
De-Restriction Signs
Signals

WARNING SIGNS
Warning signs are used to alert drivers to dangerous situations on or bordering the
roadway.

These signs indicate a need for additional care by road users, and may require a
decrease in speed or other manoeuvres to ensure the safety of themselves, other road
users, pedestrians or animals.

Road Layout Signs

Direction of Movement Signs
Symbolic Signs
Hazard Marker Signs
Information Signs

GUIDANCE SIGNS
Guidance signs are provided to help navigate our increasingly complex and
developing road network.

Location Signs
Direction Sign Symbols
Route Markers
Direction Signs
Tourism Direction Signs

Local Direction Signs

Diagrammatic Signs
Variable Message Signs

TEMPORARY SIGNS
Nearly all road signs can be used in either a permanent or temporary form.

Permanent signs include all road signs used to indicate normal conditions.

Temporary signs are identical to the permanent sign except for one major
detail - they have a yellow background colour.

Example of Temporary Signs

ROAD MARKINGS
Road markings, painted on the roads surface in white, red, or yellow, like
road signs must be obeyed. Disobeying of road markings could also result in
serious collisions endangering road users.

Regulatory
Warning
Guidance
Exclusive Use Symbols

The following information was replicated from
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