The R24 is a major East-West provincial route in the Gauteng and North West provinces that links OR Tambo International Airport with Rustenburg via Johannesburg, Krugersdorp and Magaliesburg.

It then heads north-west, crossing the N14 national route at Tarlton and continuing towards Magaliesburg, which is a holiday and weekend destination for people of Johannesburg and Pretoria.

It meets the R104 (Fatima Bhayat Street) just after crossing the Platinum Highway and proceeds for another 1 kilometre north-north-east to end at a t-junction just west of the Hex River.

[7][8] By October 2013, every street and freeway that makes up the R24 from OR Tambo International Airport, Ekurhuleni, through Johannesburg and Roodepoort, was officially named after Albertina Sisulu,[9][2][3] with the only exceptions being in some one-way-street sections of the route.

[11] The use of the street name Albertina Sisulu Road ends in the northern part of Roodepoort, at the junction with Corlett Avenue, stretching a distance of 45 kilometres from the airport.

As the R24 is known as the Albertina Sisulu Freeway in Ekurhuleni between Eastgate Shopping Centre and OR Tambo International Airport, the use of the name doesn't end there.

[15] Part of the N12 freeway in the Gauteng province was declared an e-toll highway (with open road tolling) from 3 December 2013 onwards,[18] including the 2 km section in Bedfordview where it is co-signed with the R24.

[19] SANRAL then changed the signs on both highways connected (N12 and R24) so as for them to indicate that there is an e-toll ahead when travelling westwards to the N3 interchange (every lane on the N12 and R24 west cosigned section passed through the gantry).