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respectively. A director resident outside South Africa would
receive US$25,000 per annum instead of US$16,000. On the
basis of the present number of non-executive directors, the
aggregate annual remuneration would increase from
R1,180,000 and US$178,000 to R1,440,000 and
US$225,000 respectively. In addition, it is proposed that the
current travel allowance of US$4,000 per meeting, payable to
directors, including the chairman and deputy chairman, who
travel internationally to attend board meetings, be increased to
US$5,000 per meeting. The increase of this allowance
represents additional remuneration of some US$12,000.
Fees payable in respect of the position of president have
been excluded.
Executive directors do not receive payments of directors’ fees.
The company will disregard any votes cast by
the chairman, deputy chairman, non-executive directors
and executive directors; or
an associate of that person or group of persons stated
above.
However, the company will not disregard a vote if:
it is cast by a person as proxy for a person who is entitled
to vote in accordance with the directions on the form of
proxy; or
it is cast by the person chairing the meeting as a proxy of
a person who is entitled to vote in accordance with a
direction on the form of proxy to vote as the proxy decides.
12. Special resolution number 1
Acquisition of company’s own shares
“Resolved that the acquisition in terms of Section 85 of the
Companies Act No. 61 of 1973, as amended, (the Act) and
the JSE Listings Requirements, from time to time, by the
company of ordinary shares issued by the company, and the
acquisition in terms of Section 89 of the Act and the JSE
Listings Requirements by the company and any of its
subsidiaries, from time to time, of ordinary shares issued by
the company, is hereby approved as a general approval,
provided that:
any such acquisition of shares shall be implemented
through the order book operated by the JSE trading
system and done without any prior understanding or
arrangement between the company and the counter
party; and/or on the open market of any other stock
exchange on which the shares are listed or may be
listed and on which the company may, subject to the
approval of the JSE and any other stock exchange as
necessary, wish to effect such acquisition of shares;
this approval shall be valid only until the next annual
general meeting of the company, or for 15 months from
the date of this resolution, whichever period is shorter;
an announcement containing details of such
acquisitions will be published as soon as the company,
or the subsidiaries collectively, shall have acquired
ordinary shares issued by the company constituting, on
a cumulative basis, not less than 3% of the number of
ordinary shares in the company in issue as at the date
of this approval; and an announcement containing
details of such acquisitions will be published in respect
of each subsequent acquisition by either the company,
or by the subsidiaries collectively, as the case may be,
of ordinary shares issued by the company, constituting,
on a cumulative basis, not less than 3% of the number
of ordinary shares in the company in issue as at the
date of this approval;
the company, and its subsidiaries collectively, shall not
in any financial year be entitled to acquire ordinary
shares issued by the company constituting, on a
cumulative basis, more than 20% of the number of
ordinary shares in the company in issue as at the date
of this approval;
shares issued by the company may not be acquired at
a price greater than 10% above the weighted average
market price of the company’s shares for the five
business days immediately preceding the date of the
relevant acquisition.”
The reason for this special resolution is to grant the
directors of the company a general authority for the
acquisition of the company’s ordinary shares by the
company, or by a subsidiary of the company.
The effect of this special resolution will be to authorise the
directors of the company to procure that the company or
any of its subsidiaries may purchase ordinary shares issued
by the company on the JSE or any other stock exchange on
which the company’s shares are or may be listed.
The directors, after considering the effect of a repurchase, up
to the maximum limit, of the company’s issued ordinary