The following notification is made by the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rule 5.6.
As of 6 pm on 31 December 2024, the issued share capital of the Company was 1,337,577,913 ordinary shares of US$0.54945 each. No shares are held in Treasury, therefore the total number of voting rights in the Company is 1,337,577,9131.
This information may be used by shareholders (and others with notification obligations) as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine whether they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.
Note 1. Of these 112,300,129 shares are held by Epoch Investment Holdings (RF) Proprietary Limited, Epoch Two Investment Holdings (RF) Proprietary Limited and Tarl Investment Holdings (RF) Proprietary Limited, the independent companies which purchased shares as part of the Company's 2006 share buyback programme. These independent companies have waived their right to vote on all the shares they hold or will hold in the Company.
The Company has a primary listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Botswana Stock Exchange, the Namibia Stock Exchange and the SIX Swiss Exchange.