SPECIAL RESOLUTION 1: BUY BACK OF SHARES
To RESOLVE that by way of a general authority, the company and
any of its subsidiaries from time to time, being authorised thereto in
terms of the articles of the company and the subsidiaries respectively,
be authorised in terms of sections 85 and 89 of the Companies Act
61 of 1973, as amended (the Act) and the Listings Requirements of
the JSE to acquire from time to time shares issued by the company,
provided that:
| 6.1 |
any such acquisition of shares shall be implemented on the
JSE (the open market) and without any prior understanding
or arrangement between the company and counterparty; |
| 6.2 |
this approval shall be valid only until the next annual general
meeting of the company and shall not extend beyond 15 months
from the date of this meeting and may be varied or revoked by
special resolution by any general meeting of the company at any
time prior to such annual general meeting; |
| 6.3 |
an announcement will be published as soon as the company or
the subsidiaries collectively, shall have acquired shares issued by
the company constituting, on a cumulative basis, not less than
3% of the number of shares in the company in issue as at the
date of this approval, containing full details of such acquisition; |
| 6.4 |
the company and its subsidiaries collectively shall not be entitled
to acquire shares issued by the company constituting, on a
cumulative basis, more than 10% of the number of shares in
the company in issue as at the date of this approval; |
| 6.5 |
shares issued by the company may not be acquired at a price
greater than 10% above the weighted average traded price of the company’s shares for the five business days immediately
preceding the date of the relevant acquisition; |
| 6.6 |
at any point in time, the company may only appoint one agent
to effect any repurchase; |
| 6.7 |
such repurchases may only be effected if, thereafter, the
company still complies with the spread requirements of the JSE; |
| 6.8 |
no repurchase may take place during prohibited periods
stipulated by the Listings Requirements of the JSE. |
The reason for and effect of this special resolution number 1 is to
enable the company to buy back its shares as and when required
within the terms and conditions of the approval.
At the present time the directors have no specific intention with regard
to the utilisation of this authority, which will only be used if the
circumstances are appropriate. The company wishes to confirm that
any buy back of shares, if implemented, will only be dealt with via the
formal JSE trading system.
BUY BACK DISCLOSURE REQUIRED IN TERMS OF THE
LISTINGS REQUIREMENTS OF THE JSE
In terms of the Listings Requirements of the JSE, the following
disclosures are required when requiring shareholders’ approval to
authorise the company, or any of its subsidiaries, to buy back any of its
shares as set out in special resolution number 1 above.
Working capital statement
The directors of the company agree that they will not undertake any
repurchase unless:
- the company and the group will be able, in the ordinary course of
business, to pay its debts;
- the assets of the company and the group will be in excess of the
liabilities of the company and the group, recognised and measured
in accordance with the accounting policies used in the latest
annual financial statements;
- the share capital and reserves of the company and the group will
be adequate for ordinary business purposes; and
- the working capital resources of the company and the group will
be adequate for ordinary business purposes.
No acquisitions shall be effected in terms of special resolution
number 1 unless the sponsor of the company provides a letter to the
JSE on the adequacy of the company’s working capital in terms of the
Listings Requirements of the JSE.
OTHER DISCLOSURES REQUIRED IN TERMS OF THE
LISTING REQUIREMENTS OF THE JSE
Litigation statement
Other than disclosed or accounted for in these annual financial
statements, the directors of the company, whose names are given on
pages 6 and 7 of these annual financial statements, are not aware of
any legal or arbitration proceedings, pending or threatened against the
group, which may have or have had a material effect on the group’s
financial position in the 12 months preceding the date of this notice
of annual general meeting.
Material changes
Other than the facts and developments reported on in these annual
financial statements, there have been no material changes in the affairs, financial or trading position of the group since the signature
date of this annual report and the posting date thereof.
The following further disclosures required in terms of the Listings
Requirements of the JSE are set out in accordance with the reference
pages in these annual financial statements of which this notice forms part:
- Directors and management – pages 6 – 7 and 22 – 23
- Major shareholders of the company – page 44
- Directors’ interest in the company’s shares – page 46 and page 69
- Share capital of the company – page 66
Directors’ responsibility
The directors whose names appear on pages 6 and 7 of the annual
report, collectively and individually accept full responsibility for the
accuracy of the information set out above for the purposes of
considering special resolution number 1 and certify that, to the best of
their knowledge and belief, there are no facts which have been
omitted which will make any statement false or misleading, and that all
reasonable enquiries to ascertain such facts have been made and that
the information referred to above contains all the information required
by law and the Listings Requirements of the JSE.
Proxies
Shareholders who have not dematerialised their ordinary shares or who
have dematerialised their shares with “own name” registration are
entitled to attend and vote at the annual general meeting and may, in
terms of section 189 of the Act, appoint a proxy or proxies to attend
the annual general meeting, speak and, on a poll, vote in their stead.
A proxy need not be a shareholder of the company. A proxy form
is enclosed but is also obtainable from the registered office of
Kumba Iron Ore at the address set out on the inside back cover.
Proxies must be received by Computershare Investor Services 2004 (Pty)
Limited by not later than 12:00 on Tuesday, 22 May 2007.
Shareholders who have dematerialised their shares, other than those
shareholders who have dematerialised their shares with “own name”
registration, should contact their Central Securities Depository
Participant (CSDP) or broker in the manner and time stipulated in the
relevant agreement to furnish them with voting instructions and, in the
event that they wish to attend the annual general meeting, to obtain
the necessary authority to do so.
By order of the board

A van der Merwe
Company secretary
Sishen Mine
5 March 2007
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