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Stock exchange listings
The primary listing of the company's ordinary shares is on the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa. Its ordinary shares have secondary listing status on the stock exchanges in London and Paris, as well as being quoted in Brussels in the form of International Depositary Receipts
(IDRs) and in New York in the form of American Depositary Shares (ADSs). The company has a full compliance listing on the Australian Stock Exchange for its 7,443,941 ordinary shares in the form of CHESS Depository Interests
(CDIs).
Stock exchange information
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| 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 |
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| JSE Securities Exchange South Africa |
| Share code: ANG |
| Rands per share: |
| Market price | - high | 496.00 | 385.00 | 428.00 | 361.60 |
| - low | 208.40 | 186.00 | 225.00 | 167.40 |
| - year-end | 422.00 | 221.00 | 316.60 | 229.20 |
| Shares traded | - 000 | 45,659 | 24,902 | 31,787 | 18,251 |
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| London Stock Exchange |
| Share code: 79 LK |
| Pounds per share: |
| Market price | - high | 27.79 | 35.51 | 41.72 | 35.35 |
| - low | 18.25 | 17.14 | 22.86 | 20.09 |
| - year-end | 24.18 | 19.45 | 32.01 | 23.42 |
| Shares traded | - 000 | 9,431 | 2.5 | 3.2 | 12,206 |
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| Paris Bourse |
| Share code: VA FP |
| Euros per share (1998: French francs per share) |
| Market price | - high | 50.00 | 57.80 | 68.60 | 338.80 |
| - low | 28.51 | 28.20 | 33.23 | 189.90 |
| - year-end | 39.05 | 31.85 | 50.90 | 221.10 |
| Shares traded | - 000 | 839 | 947 | 1,412 | 1,437 |
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| Brussels Bourse |
| Share code: ANG BB |
| Euros per share (1998: Belgian francs per share) |
| Market price | - high | 49.79 | 49.95 | 68.20 | 2,060 |
| - low | 29.03 | 28.55 | 33.50 | 1,150 |
| - year-end | 40.50 | 31.85 | 50.85 | 1,398 |
| IDRs traded | - 000 | 819 | 1,002 | 2,635 | 2,273 |
| One IDR represents one ordinary share |
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| New York Stock Exchange |
| Share code: AU |
| (listing commenced 5 August 1998) |
| US dollars per ADS: |
| Market price | - high | 22.34 | 28.69 | 37.00 | 31.00 |
| - low | 13.15 | 12.25 | 18.31 | 16.00 |
| - year-end | 18.06 | 14.94 | 25.69 | 19.56 |
| ADSs traded | - 000 | 106,231 | 46,940 | 41,355 | 14,213 |
| Each ADS represents one-half of an ordinary share |
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| Australian Stock Exchange |
| Share code: AGG |
| (listing commenced 15 November 1999) |
| Australian dollars per CDI: |
| Market price | - high | 8.00 | 8.68 | 8.90 | - |
| - low | 4.80 | 4.75 | 7.10 | - |
| - year-end | 7.25 | 5.48 | 7.64 | - |
| CDIs traded | - 000 | 62,576 | 17,831 | 4,870 | - |
Each CDI represents one-tenth of an ordinary share. The market price for years 1999 and 2000 have been adjusted for comparative purposes to account for the 10:1 reconstruction which took place in 2001.
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Australian Stock Exchange Listing Rules
The following disclosures are made pursuant to the Listing Rules of the Australian Stock Exchange and according to information available to the directors:
The 20 largest holders of the ordinary share capital of the company as at 31 January 2002 were:
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| | Ordinary shares held |
| | Number | % |
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| Anglo American plc | †* | 57,228,684 | 51.58 |
| SCMB Custody Account | † | 20,399,466 | 18.39 |
| ANZ Nominees Ltd | * | 5,894,906 | 5.31 |
| Standard Bank Nominees (Transvaal) (Pty) Ltd | * | 5,331,206 | 4.81 |
| The Bank of New York (various accounts) | | 4,251,618 | 3.83 |
| Public Investment Comm (various accounts) | | 1,654,420 | 1.49 |
| RMB Asset Management (various accounts) | | 1,130,600 | 1.02 |
| Sanlam 50000 | | 821,896 | 0.74 |
| National Nominees Ltd | * | 810,014 | 0.73 |
| Citibank (various accounts) | | 789,162 | 0.71 |
| Société Interprofessionnell Pour La Compensation |
| Des Valeurs Mobilieres a/c Sicovam | * | 685,789 | 0.62 |
| PIC Equity | | 507,800 | 0.46 |
| SIS Segaintersettle AG | | 500,356 | 0.45 |
| First National Nominees (Pty) Ltd | * | 498,828 | 0.45 |
| Brown Brothers Harriman & Company | | 360,640 | 0.33 |
| Ferbros Nominees (Pty) Ltd/Fifth Nominees (Pty) Ltd | | 338,659 | 0.31 |
| ESKOM Pension Fund (various accounts) | | 337,243 | 0.30 |
| PICTET et Cie Banquiers | | 333,550 | 0.30 |
| UBS Ltd | | 310,611 | 0.28 |
| Nedcor Bank Nominees Ltd | * | 245,613 | 0.22 |
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| Total | | 102,431,061 | 92.33 |
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† SCMB Custody Account reduced to reflect Anglo American plc separately.
Information extracted from STRATE register except where indicated by *.
Analysis of ordinary shareholdings as at 31 January 2002
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| Number of | % of total | Number of | % of shares |
| shareholders | shareholders | shares | issued |
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| Size of holding |
| 1 | - 100 | 17,535 | 70.1 | 345,087 | 0.3 |
| 101 | - 500 | 3,557 | 14.2 | 499,860 | 0.5 |
| 501 | - 1,000 | 1,393 | 5.6 | 1,008,359 | 0.9 |
| 1,001 | - 5,000 | 2,038 | 8.1 | 4,253,204 | 3.8 |
| 5,001 | - 10,000 | 273 | 1.1 | 1,895,905 | 1.7 |
| 10,001 | - 100,000 | 187 | 0.7 | 5,017,607 | 4.5 |
| Over 100,000 | 50 | 0.2 | 97,925,684 | 88.3 |
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| Total | 25,033 | 100.0 | 110,945,706 | 100.0 |
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Shareholder spread as at 13 February 2002
Pursuant to the Listings Requirements of the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa, with the best knowledge of the directors and after reasonable enquiry, the spread of shareholders was as follows:
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| Class | Number of holders | % |
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| Ordinary shares |
| Non-public shareholders: |
| Directors | 7 | 0.01 |
| Shares held by Anglo American plc | 1 | 51.55 |
| Public shareholders | 25,025 | 48.44 |
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| Total | 25,033 | 100.00 |
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A redeemable preference shares |
} All shares are held by a wholly-owned subsidiary company |
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B redeemable preference shares |
Major shareholders as at 13 February 2002
According to information available to the directors, the following are the only shareholders beneficially holding, directly or indirectly, in excess of 5% of the ordinary share capital of the company:
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| Ordinary shares held |
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| 13 February 2002 | 31 December 2001 | 31 December 2000 |
| Number | % | Number | % | Number | % |
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| Anglo American plc | 57,228,684 | 51.55 | 57,228,684 | 53.17 | 57,234,459 | 53.48 |
| The Bank of New York* | 19,434,313 | 17.50 | 15,052,323 | 13.98 | 16,512,360 | 15.43 |
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* Shares held through various custodians in respect of ADSs issued by the Bank
Voting rights
The articles of association provide that every member present at a meeting in person or, in the case of a body corporate, represented, is entitled to one vote only on a show of hands. Upon a poll members present or any duly appointed proxy shall have one vote for every share held. There are no limitations on the right of non-South African shareholders to hold or exercise voting rights attaching to any shares in the company. CDI holders are not entitled to vote in person at meetings, but may vote by way of proxy.
Options do not carry a right to vote until the option has been exercised and ordinary shares allotted.
Diary
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| Financial year-end | | 31 December |
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| Annual financial statements | Issued | 14 March 2002 |
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| Annual general meeting | 11:00 | 30 April 2002 |
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| Quarterly reports | Issued | 30 April 2002 |
| | 31 July 2002 |
| | 31 October 2002 |
| | 31 January 2003 |
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Dividends
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| | Last date to |
| | trade ordinary | Payment date |
| | shares cum | to | Payment date |
| Declared | dividend | shareholders | to ADS holders |
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| Final - No. 91 | 30 January 2002 | 15 February 2002 | 4 March 2002 | 15 March 2002 |
| Interim - No. 92 | 30 July 2002 | 16 August 2002 | 26 August 2002* | 6 September 2002* |
| Final - No. 93 | 30 January 2003 | 14 February 2003 | 24 February 2003* | 7 March 2003* |
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* Approximate dates |
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Currency conversion guide
At 31 December one rand was equal to:
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| 2001 | 2000 |
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| Australian dollar | 0.16 | 0.24 |
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| Belgian franc | 3.76 | 5.64 |
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| Euro | 0.09 | 0.14 |
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| French franc | 0.61 | 0.92 |
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| German mark | 0.18 | 0.27 |
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| Japanese yen | 10.83 | 15.07 |
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| Swiss franc | 0.14 | 0.21 |
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| UK pound | 0.06 | 0.09 |
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| US dollar | 0.08 | 0.13 |
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