Sort of like Highway 1

You can't quite see it with this picture, but the road sign, like many others on the road approaching Jo'burg reads: Hazards Next 3 km. These signs, as I mentioned, mean you are approaching Jo'burg, but more specifically "the townships," the famous Soweto and Alexandra. These are plain and simple, shanti-towns and slums. The word Hazards does not imply falling rocks, nor road-work, nor abberant livestock. These signs, in so many words, are basically a warning about car high-jacking. At night, armed men from the Townships, probably sick and tired of seeing stupidly expensive cars roll by, hide at the side of the road, just on the other side of the various rolling hills you encounter on the way into Joburg. As they see a car approaching, things are thrown into the road leaving the driver two options: driving into it and probably crashing or slowing down or stopping putting him/herself at risk of being shot or jumped by the car-jackers. Essentially, don't drive at night. Secondly, if forced to drive at night, drive slow enough to take evasive manoeuvres or so as to be able and reverse out of the way of harm. Craziness.