Dividends declared

It is group policy to only declare dividends at the end of the financial year. If a dividend is declared for any one financial year, this is usually published in the press at the time the group releases its annual results in May of each year.

The following dividends are hereby declared for the year ended 28 February 2011:
  Ordinary dividend number 63 of 108 cents per share (2010: 90 cents)
  Participating preference dividend number 17 of 108 cents per share (2010: 90 cents).
 
The above dividends are payable as follows:
Last day of trading to qualify for and participate in the dividend  
(cum dividend): Friday, 24 June 2011
Trading ex dividend commences Monday, 27 June 2011
Record date Friday, 1 July 2011
Dividend payment date (electronic and certificated) Monday, 4 July 2011

Dividend cheques in payment of these dividends to certificated shareholders will be posted to shareholders on or about Monday, 4 July 2011. Electronic payment to certificated shareholders will be undertaken simultaneously.

Shareholders who have dematerialised their share certificates will have their accounts at their Central Securities Depository Participant or broker credited on Monday, 4 July 2011.

In the case of certificated shareholders, notice of any change of address of shareholders must reach the transfer secretaries, Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Limited, on or before Friday, 24 June 2011. Share certificates may not be dematerialised or rematerialised from Monday, 27 June 2011 to Friday, 1 July 2011, both days inclusive.

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