How traffic circles should be treated in South Africa

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Most idiots in South Africa just treat traffic circles as stop streets.
Gets on my flipping goat.
You're supposed to yield to the traffic already in the circle and coming from your right.
Just find a gap and go... you dumb moron.

This.

Then they decide to go when I am already inside the circle after politely waiting for them...
 
"Drivers should treat mini-circles as they would four-way stops"

Then why not just make it a 4-way stop?
 
If only the municipalities would use the correct signage. They erect the wrong signs before the circle like the mini circle sign at a large normal circle and the circle(blue) sign at the mini circles. :X3:
This is a huge problem in PE where they seem incapable of getting it correct - iirc there are currently only three or four actual traffic circles here where there should be dozens.

"Drivers should treat mini-circles as they would four-way stops"

Then why not just make it a 4-way stop?
Because you don't necessarily have to stop.
 
Most idiots in South Africa just treat traffic circles as stop streets.
Gets on my flipping goat.
You're supposed to yield to the traffic already in the circle and coming from your right.
Just find a gap and go... you dumb moron.
Problem is people do this at all circles, but it doesn't apply to mini circles for good reason
You get stuck at mini circles for ages if the one of the roads (especially the one to your right) is much busier than the one you're on
 
And where I live, idiots not only think one must stop before entering the circle, but they stop in the circle for pedestrians wanting to cross!
 
Don't get me started on mini and traffic circles, we have plenty of them in our and neighbouring suburbs and most haven't got a clue how they work. That is before you get to the suicidal delivery drivers that just YOLO through them and then get sent to see their maker. I even had to educate my father about the differences between mini and traffic circles, he has lived in SA since he was 13 and has been driving since the age of 18 but had no clue.
 
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