Louis Botha Ave, which is part of the
M11 metropolitan route, begins at the top of the
Johannesburg CBD in the suburbs of
Hillbrow and
Berea at the Clarendon Place and Willie Street junction and then heads north-east passing between
Houghton to the north and
Yeoville and
Bellevue to the south. In Houghton it passes close to the private boys schools of
St John's College (1889) and
King Edward VII school (1911). The route then enters the suburb of
Orange Grove, passing the new Victory Theatre (2007), the older one torn down in 2005 which has its origins as a cinema in 1929 and renamed after the end of
World War II as the Victory and became a theatre in the early nineties. Radium Beer Hall is on the right. Midway through Orange Grove, the road bends northwards and passes through
Orchards and
Sydenham and the smaller suburbs of
Maryvale,
Forbesdale,
Cheltondale,
Rouxville and
Hawkins Estate. The road then crosses the
M20 at Atholl Road in the suburbs of
Highlands North and
Waverley. The road crosses Corlett Drive in
Bramley before ending a short distance later at the Artwright Avenue (
M40) junction in the light industrial suburb of
Wynberg with the old township of
Alexandra to the east. The road, still designated as the
M11, continues on northwards as the Pretoria Main Road. == History ==