Information and guidance signs are the ones you actually read while driving. They do not restrict you and they do not warn you; they tell you where you are, where the road goes, and how much room you have to decide.
The colour is the code. Blue grounds belong to freeways, green to other rural roads, white to local streets and destinations inside a town, and brown to tourism. Once you know the colour you know which road the sign is talking about before you have read a word of it.
The diagrammatic signs are the ones worth studying twice. They draw the junction ahead as a picture, with the lane you need already marked, and the test likes to ask which lane a given destination is in rather than what the sign is called.
In the test: Blue means freeway, green means a rural road that is not a freeway, white means local, brown means tourism. The exit countdown bars are 100 metres each.
Information signs
These signs provide information about the road ahead so that you can plan your road and lane usage.
High speed freeway exit countdown signs. Each white bar represents 100m to the exit.
Temporary high speed exit countdown sign. Example shown: 300m to the exit.
No through road ahead, as indicated by the red bar.
No through road to the left (or right), as indicated by the red bar.
Priority road. The road you are travelling on has priority at the junction ahead.
Modal transfer. At this point you can change your mode of transport, e.g. from car to train or from train to bus.
Information centre where you can obtain information about the local area, directions and so on.
Supplementary information plates
Goods vehicle.
Recommended speed.
For the next 12km.
For the next 5km.
200m ahead.
Blind people.
Accident.
Direction sign symbols
Railway station.
Bus terminus.
Airport.
Freeway.
Power Station.
Industrial Area.
Shopping Centre.
City Centre/CBD.
Toll route.
Alternative route.
Detour direction.
Mine.
Harbour.
Heliport.
Library.
Bicycle route.
Park and ride train.
Park and ride bus.
Pick up point.
Parking area.
Mini-bus rank.
Toll plaza.
Border/customs post.
Freeway route number.
Metro route number south.
Regional route number.
National route number.
SADC route number.
Local direction sign symbols
Business centre.
Shopping centre.
Railway station.
Airport.
Bus station.
Mini-bus rank.
Harbour.
Parking area.
Parking garage.
Mine.
Information centre.
These symbols are found in a town or city to indicate the nature of the destination to which the white direction sign is pointing.
Industrial area.
Dump site.
Produce market.
Conference facilities.
Power station.
School.
Library.
Swimming pool.
Fire station.
Border post/customs.
Heliport.
Diagrammatic signs
GUIDANCE SIGNS: DIAGRAMMATIC SIGNS.
Direction signs
The white signs or inserts are local direction signs within a town or city.
GUIDANCE SIGNS: DIRECTION SIGN EXAMPLES.
Location name symbols
River name symbol.
Toll road name symbol.
End of toll road name symbol.
Dual carriage freeway name symbol.
Single carriage freeway name symbol.
Interchange name symbol.
Conservancy name symbol.
Location name signs
Suburb.
Street.
Municipality.
River.
Freeway.
Interchange.
Mountain pass.
Colour combinations
GUIDANCE SIGNS: COLOUR COMBINATIONS.
The other signs
Learn them properly, not by scrolling
A reference page is for looking something up. The course teaches the same signs in short narrated lessons and then asks you about them until you stop getting them wrong.
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