The M77 is a short metropolitan route in

Greater Johannesburg The term Greater Johannesburg may mean: * The area governed by the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council (GJMC) from 1995 to 2000. * The current City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, which superseded the GJMC in 2000 with the incorpor ...

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...

. It connects Moroka in

Soweto Soweto () is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south. Its name is an English syllabic abbreviation for ''South Western Townships''. Formerly a s ...

with

Roodepoort Roodepoort is a town in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality, Roodepoort became part of the Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg and Sandton. Johannesburg's most famous botanical ...

via

Dobsonville Dobsonville is an suburb in Soweto. Description The first shopping centre in Soweto, Dobsonville Shopping Centre, is located in Dobsonville. It has many small suburbs within it, namely extensions 1, 2 and 3, Mmesi Park, Snake Park (Thulani) and m ...

. For its entire route, it is named Elias Motsoaledi Road.

Route

The M77 begins at a junction with the M68 in the Moroka section of

. It heads northwards for 10 kilometres, through Jabavu (where it meets the western terminus of the M79) and

(where it meets the M72 and the western terminus of the M70), to exit Soweto and reach its end at a junction with the R41 in

, in the suburb of Cresswell Park (south of the town centre).

References

Streets and roads of Johannesburg Metropolitan routes in Johannesburg {{SouthAfrica-road-stub