N1

Wow.

Got a station vehicle N1 South now at Rigel Avenue and the roadworks causing delays around the Brockfontein interchange, particularly N1 Southbound.

In Johannesburg, the case against businessman Katiso Keiti Mulefe and his three co-accused has been postponed to July next year.

They face multiple charges, including murder, as well as the possession of unlicensed firearms and ammunition.

Polo Kwaniamsu 28, tomorrow Joburg 29, Pretoria reaching a maximum of 30 degrees.

The traffic issues at the moment major on the N1 South in Randbrook.

There's a stationary vehicle after Malibongway Drive causing delays there.

And then every single day, Ikuruleni area, Bedford View especially, the N3 South, three lanes are closed there near the Van Bieren Road exit.

Because the man would never admit to what he'd done, and only provided wild, unbelievable stories about what happened, we don't know exactly what occurred, but there are pieces of evidence that point to a picture.

Pangacar was clearly always headed to Worcester, but the taxi he and Tasne got into would only take them so far, and he didn't seem to have much money, so at some point he and the child started walking on the N1 Highway.

A woman who was driving with a friend on the N1 that night spotted Pangacar and Tasne.

She noticed that the child was barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

It was a pretty chilly evening, and the woman asked her friend to stop so she could ask if they needed help.

Pangacar told the woman that he and his daughter, as he referred to Tasne, were on their way to Worcester to meet her mother, and asked if they could hitch a ride as far up the N1 as she could take them.

The woman noticed that Tasne was very quiet, but Pangacar was very talkative, and any time she tried to engage with the child, he would distract her.

This she only realized in retrospect.

President Ramaphosa said it plainly at the inaugural National Transport Conference at Gallagher Estate in Midrand.

When transport arteries like this one, the N1, are blocked or inefficient, growth stalls, costs rise, and opportunity diminishes.

I'm actually filming this on the road from Queenstown, and I'm in Bloemdown, and I'm going back to Johannesburg.

And this behind me is the N1, and that context matters because this piece is about what South Africa's road network actually means economically, socially, and even structurally.

We're going to interrogate the numbers, unpack the corridors that hold this economy together, and look at the quiet ways that roads shape everything from a citrus export to the price of bread on your table.

What we've got to firstly unpack here is just how enormous this infrastructure and its footprint really is.

Those are world-class assets sitting in a country that often struggles to articulate its own strengths.

The road network is one of the clearest examples of infrastructure-led competitive advantage that South Africa holds, and it deserves to be understood a little bit better.