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Absa Group Limited is one of South Africa's largest financial services organisations, serving personal, commercial and corporate customers in South Africa.

The Group interacts with its customers through a combination of physical and electronic channels, offering a comprehensive range of banking services, (from basic products and services for the low-income personal market to customised solutions for the commercial and corporate markets), bancassurance and wealth management products and services.

Overview

The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Ltd (IDC) is a self-financing, national Development Finance Institution (DFI). It was established in 1940 to promote economic growth and industrial development in South Africa.

At the IDC we recognise the importance of a dynamic private sector in securing and stimulating rapid and sustainable economic growth, creating employment and reducing poverty.

Our mandate includes the rest of the African continent and we are active throughout the entire region. We operate in a broad spectrum of industries and with our specialized knowledge and experience, are able to offer valid and appropriate financial assistance to a wide variety of individuals and companies.

Vision

To be the primary source of commercially sustainable industrial development and innovation to the benefit of South Africa and the rest of the African continent.

Mission

The IDC is a self financing national Development Finance Institution (DFI), whose primary objectives are to contribute to the generation of balanced, sustainable economic growth in Africa and to the economic empowerment of the South African population, thereby promotion the economic prosperity of all citizens. The IDC achieves this by promoting entrepreneurship through the building of competitive industries and enterprises based on sound business principles.

Our objectives

* To contribute to the goals of the Shared and Accelerated Growth Initiative of South Africa (ASGISA) by providing financing that will stimulate job creation, investment activity and economic growth;

    * To be a catalyst for economic change through our Leadership in Development Strategy;

    * To develop economies that are viable, sustainable and environmentally and socially responsible;

    * To develop Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs);

    * To accelerate Black Economic Empowerment (BEE);

    * To further the aims of the New Partnership for Africa¹s Development (NEPAD); and

    * To maintain our financial independence and apply sound business principles to everything we do.

Core strategies

    * Serving as a catalyst for balanced, sustainable development;

    * Identifying and supporting opportunities not addressed by the market;

    * Providing risk capital in partnership with the private sector;

    * Building on our skills and industry knowledge to add value to entrepreneurs and businesses; and

    * Optimizing our financial management.

Our principles

We adhere to the highest standards of corporate governance and have incorporated Black Economic Empowerment policies into every level of our organisation. While recognised as a leading Financial Development Institution (DFI), we are entirely flexible in our approach to the rapidly changing business environments of Africa.

Anglo Platinum Limited is listed on the JSE Limited and is the sole listed entity for the Group. It has a secondary listing on the London Stock Exchange. International depositary receipts for the Company's shares are listed on the Brussels bourse.

The Group's main operating mines include Rustenburg Platinum Mines¹ (RPM) Rustenburg Section, Amandelbult Section and Union Section (85% owned), as well as Potgietersrust Platinums Limited (PPRust) (now Mogalakwena Section), Twickenham and Lebowa Platinum Mines Limited (LPM).

The Group is also in joint ventures and associations with: African Rainbow Minerals Platinum, a historically disadvantaged South African (HDSA) mining company, to operate the Modikwa Platinum Mine; Royal Bafokeng Resources, an HDSA partner, over the combined Bafokeng-Rasimone Platinum Mine (BRPM)/ Styldrift properties; the Bakgatla-Ba-Kgafela traditional community who hold a 15% share in Union Mine; Lonmin Platinum and HDSA partners, the Bapo Ba Mogale tribe and Mvelaphanda, over the Pandora PGM reserves; Xstrata to operate the Mototolo Mine and has joint venture agreements with Aquarius Platinum (South Africa), covering the shallow reserves of its Kroondal and Marikana mines contiguous to RPM Rustenburg Section.

The Group's smelting and refining operations are wholly owned through RPM and situated in South Africa. These operations treat concentrates and matte from subsidiaries and from joint ventures.

The Group announced its intention to conclude two major BEE transactions on

4 September 2007 with existing empowerment partners, Mvelaphanda Resources Limited and Anooraq Resources Corporation. The deals when successfully concluded will result in the creation of two major independently HDSA managed and controlled PGM producers over the Lebowa Platinum Mines, Ga-Phasha, Booysendal and Northam assets.

In Zimbabwe, the Group is developing the Unki platinum mine.

Elsewhere in the world, the Group is involved in exploration in Canada, Russia, Brazil and China. The Group has a representative office in Beijing.

Dedicated to providing superior investment performance and service excellence

Established in 1974, Allan Gray Limited is the largest privately owned investment management firm in Southern Africa. Its clients comprise institutional investors, principally retirement funds, medical aid schemes and endowments, and individuals. Clients invest through either segregated accounts or collective investment funds.

The Head Office is in Cape Town and is staffed by over 580 people. Allan Gray also has an office in Johannesburg; Gaborone, Botswana and Windhoek, Namibia. Allan Gray's global asset management partner, the Bermuda based Orbis Group, manages a range of offshore equity mutual funds. The two groups share a common founder in Allan W B Gray and share the same ethos and value-based investment approach. The investment research efforts are also integrated so as to enhance the global investment management capabilities of the two firms.

"We are almost obsessed with performance"