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Notice of fourteenth annual general meeting
Explanatory notes to the resolutions for approval at the fourteenth annual general meeting
Shareholders’ information
Administration
Shareholders’ diary
Form of proxy and notes

Shareholders’ information

at 31 December 2008

      31 December 2008   31 December 2007
      Number of   Number of   % of issued     Number of   % of issued  
  Spread of ordinary shareholders   shareholders   shares   share capital     shares   share capital  
                           
  Public   145 338   1 396 012 143   74,73     1 437 498 643   77,09  
  Non-public   8   471 998 161   25,27     427 299 164   22,91  
  – Directors of MTN Group Limited and major subsidiaries       4 023 540   0,22     645 089   0,03  
  – MTN Uganda Sta Provident Fund               1 500   -  
  – Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie (M1 Limited)       190 084 630   10,18     183 152 564   9,82  
  – Newshelf 664 (Proprietary) Limited       277 889 991   14, 87     243 500 011   13,06  
                           
  Total issued share capital   145 346   1 868 010 304   100,00     1 864 797 807   100,00  

Shareholding (%)

Shareholding (%)

  Stock exchange performance          
      2008   2007  
  Closing price (cents per share) as at 31 December   10 850   12 806  
  Highest price (cents per share)   16 500   14 250  
  Lowest price (cents per share)   7 325   7 785  
  Total number of shares traded (million)   2 109,29   1 470,04  
  Total value of shares traded (Rm)   253 881   153 298  
  Number of issued shares (million)   1 868,0   1 864,8  
  Number of shares traded as a percentage of issued shares (%)   112,22   78,83  
  Number of transactions   798 903   356 885  
  Average weighted trading price (cents per share)   120,36   10 337  
  Average telecommunications index   58 316   53 675  
  Average industrial index   24 888   28 838  
  Average mobile index   191,7   165,8  
  Dividend yield (%)   1,8   0,70  
  Earnings yield (%) (headline earnings)   14,9   4,75  
  Price/earnings multiple (adjusted headline earnings) as at 31 December   12,00   18,78  
  Market capitalisation as at 31 December (Rbn)   202 679   237 706