The R103 is a Regional Route in South Africa that is the designation for some of the old sections of roads that were previously the N3, prior to upgrading. It only has 3 sections, from Hillcrest to Ladysmith, from Warden to Villiers and from Heidelberg to Johannesburg. Route Kwazulu-Natal Its first section begins as a junction with the M13 Highway in Hillcrest, a town 30 km north-west of Durban. The R103 begins as the Old Main Road and leaves Hillcrest in a roughly north-west direction and enters Cato Ridge from the east. In Cato Ridge, the road crosses the N3 at the 53 exit and then follows the south side of the N3, leaving the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, before recrossing the N3 freeway at Camperdown. It follows the N3 towards the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg, crisscrossing the freeway several times and passing through Ashburton. It enters the suburb of Scottsville in Pietermaritzburg from the south-east, bypassing Pietermaritzburg Airport, before reaching a T-junction, where it co-signs with the R56 and heads north through the suburb. Soon after, the R56 breaks off to the east and the R103 leaves Scottsville, crossing the Msunduzi River and heading north-west into the Pietermaritzburg CBD as its main road. Leaving the CBD, it continues into the suburb of Athlone. The road resumes following the N3 in a north-westerly direction passing through Hilton before reaching the outskirts of Howick, where it meets the R617. Crossing under the N3, it enters the southern suburbs of Howick and turns west by Howick Golf Club to reach the N3 Junction 103 just east of the Midmar Dam. It turns north to bypass the dam, where it crosses the Umgeni River. It heads in a north-westerly direction, passing through Lions River, Ligetton West and Zenzani before turning north outside the town of Nottingham Road and heading towards the town of Mooi River, where it meets the western terminus of the R622. Leaving Mooi River as the Griffin's Hill Pass, the road heads north-east then, after a short distance, heads north-west, eventually crossing the Boesmans River and entering Estcourt from the east. It heads north through Estcourt as its main road before leaving the town towards the north-west. It then passes through Frere, crossing the Bloukrans River, before intersecting the R74 at a t-junction. Co-signed with R74, it heads north-east for 15 kilometres and enters Colenso from the south, where its splits from