Transport The city has multiple access roads to all major freeways in the Gauteng Province such as the R59, N12, N17 and N3. The R59 Sybrand van Niekerk Freeway is the main highway running through Alberton, separating its western suburbs of Brackenhurst, Brackendowns and Meyersdal from the rest of the city. The regional highway links Alberton to Vereeniging, Sasolburg and Bloemfontein (via the N1) to the south-west, and Johannesburg and the N12 Freeway at the Reading Interchange to the north-west. The N12 Southern Bypass Freeway runs north of Alberton and links the city to Kimberley to the south-west and Benoni and eMalahleni to the north-east. The N17 Freeway runs north-east of Alberton and links the city to Springs to the north-east and the N3 Freeway partially borders Alberton to the west at its eastern suburb of Verwoerdpark and links the city to Johannesburg in the north-west and Heidelberg and Durban in the south-east. The other arterial routes include the regional route of the R554 Swartkoppies Road to Brakpan and Springs to the north-east and Lenasia to the west and the metropolitan routes of the M7 Kliprivier Drive to Johannesburg in the north-west, the M31 Voortrekker Road to Johannesburg in the north-west, the M48 Van Riebeeck Avenue to Gosforth Park, Germiston in the north, the M61 Vereeniging Road to Vereeniging in the south-west, the M94 Kritzinger Road/Grey Avenue to Germiston in the north-west, and the M95 Nelson Mandela Avenue to Glenvista, Johannesburg South in the west. Sports There are many well-established sports facilities and clubs for tennis, rugby, road running, boxing, wrestling, cricket, jukskei, netball, hockey, soccer, bowls, korfball and ring tennis in Alberton. It is also home to the Reading Country Club and Golf Course. Alberton was also home to the now defunct New Market Race Course, which is now a shopping mall. Parks and greenspace Alberton borders on the Klipriviersberg Nature Reserve, located on Peggy Vera Road, Kibler Park, Gauteng (26°18′13″S 28°0′39″E). This reserve is home to many wild animals, including zebra, red hartebeest, porcupines, black wildebeest, otters, blesbok, springbok, duiker and 170 bird species. There are also Iron Age settlements dating from about 1500 and the ruins of a house built in 1850 by voortrekker Sarel Marais. Infrastructure Health Healthcare facilities include numerous government clinics as well the privately run Netcare Alberton hospital, formerly the Union Hospital and Clinton Clinic respectively. Notable residents (past and present) Trevor Noah