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Shareholders’ diary

Financial year end 25-Jun-01

Annual general meeting 3-Dec-01

Dividends  
  Interim dividend (current year)  
    – SA cents per share 140 c
    – last date for registration 23-Mar-01
    – paid 26-Apr-01
  Final dividend (current year)  
    – SA cents per share 180 c
    – declared 3-Sep-01
    – last date for registration 21-Sep-01
    – payable 25-Oct-01

 
Statistics              

      2001 2000 1999 1998 1997

Number of shareholders     11 273 13 245 15 018 14 577 15 230
Number of shares in issue*   – million 665,0† 606,8 606,1 605,1 604,7
Number of shares repurchased   – million 47,1 27,8
Net number of shares in issue**   – million 617,9 579,0 606,1 605,1 604,7
Number of debentures in issue   – million 56,4 56,4 56,4 56,4
Weighted average number            
of shares in issue**   – million 627,3 604,4 605,8 605,0 604,1

Volume of shares traded‡   – million 317,7 265,6 292,2 217,5 118,7
Volume traded to issued   – % 47,8 43,8 48,2 35,9 19,6

Market price per share            
  year end   – SA cents 7 600 4 665 4 190 3 480 5 700
    – US cents 947 673 692 637 1 264
  high   – SA cents 8 100 5 500 4 400 6 650 6 000
    – US cents 1 010 794 727 1 218 1 331
  low   – SA cents 4 320 3 400 2 040 2 825 4 300
    – US cents 538 491 337 517 954

Number of share transactions     88 599 56 740 48 946 44 562 27 605
Value of share transactions   – R million 19 073 12 001 6 835 6 865 6 274
    – USD million 2 494 1 911 1 128 1 408 1 417
Average value per share transaction   – Rand 215 273 211 509 139 644 154 055 227 278
    – USD 28 149 33 680 23 046 31 596 51 331
 
*Before share buyback programme     
**After share buyback programme
†Includes conversion of 56,4 million debentures into shares with effect from 26 June 2000
‡Includes share buyback programme