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| Route information | ||||
| Length | 71 km (44 mi) | |||
| Major junctions | ||||
| East end |  R558 in Protea Glen | |||
 R28 in Randfontein  R500 in Carletonville | ||||
| West end |  R501 west of Carletonville | |||
| Location | ||||
| Country | South Africa | |||
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The R559 is a Regional Route in Gauteng, South Africa that connects Protea Glen with Carletonville via Randfontein. [1]
The R559 begins at a junction with the R558 road in Protea Glen, Soweto, just north of the R558's intersection with the N12. It goes north-west for 17 kilometres to reach a junction with the R28 road in the southern suburbs of Randfontein.
From Randfontein, it turns to the south-west and goes for 22 kilometres, through Hillside, to reach a junction with Station Street. It becomes Station Street westwards and goes for 17 kilometres to enter the towns of Oberholzer and Carletonville. It reaches a junction with the R500 road and bypasses Carletonville Mall. From the R500 junction, it goes westwards for 18 kilometres, passing south of Khutsong, to reach its western terminus at a junction with the R501 road.
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km (25 mi) west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company. The town was established in 1890 to serve the new mine and was administered by Krugersdorp until it became a municipality in 1929. Apart from having the largest stamp mill in the world, Randfontein, like many of the other outlying areas of Johannesburg, is essentially a rural collection of farms and small holdings in a particularly beautiful part of Gauteng.
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