HartRAO Home > How to get to HartRAO > from Randburg or Northern Johannesburg via Malibongwe Drive (R512)

Leave Randburg travelling northwest on Malibongwe Drive towards Lanseria Airport. This becomes the Pelindaba Road, or R512. Cross over the Pretoria-Krugersdorp highway. Continue past the Lanseria Airport turnoff. (If leaving Lanseria, turn right at the junction with the R512). Travel for a further 18 km, to where the R512 meets the road between Pelindaba and Broederstroom at a T-junction.

At the T-junction turn left onto the road to Brits / Broederstroom.

Turn left onto the Hartbeeshoek road which is signposted about 2 km after Broederstroom. After 9 km a stream is crossed and a dirt road to Skeerpoort turns off to the right. Ignore this dirt road and proceed for a further 9 km on the tarred road to the CSIR-SAC / HartRAO entrance on the right-hand side at the 34 km marker. There are signs "Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory" and "HartRAO" behind the fence, to the left of the gate, and "Satellite Application Centre / CSIR" to the right of the gate.

Once inside the gates of CSIR-SAC and HartRAO, drive 3 km down into the valley. After 1 km you will pass the CSIR's Satellite Application Centre on the right. HartRAO is at the end of a steep descent into a valley.

Here is a map in pdf format.

Note that all visits must be booked in advance.