Notes to the Group financial statements | Note 19
for the year ended 31 December 2010

          December
2010
Rm
      December
2009
Rm
 
19.   RESERVES                
    Balance at beginning of year     (15 276)       1 769  
    Purchase/sale of non-controlling interest     60       (43)  
    Transfer from retained earnings           188  
    Share-based payment reserve     1 640       84  
    Cash flow hedging reserve     77       (191)  
    Other reserves     93       (116)  
    Foreign currency translation differences of foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures     (9 318)       (16 967)  
    Balance at end of year     (22 724)       (15 276)  
    Consisting of:                
    Contingency reserve (as required by insurance regulations)*     39       29  
    Statutory reserve (as required by Rwanda and Congo-Brazzaville legislation)**     235       168  
    Purchase/sale of non-controlling interest     (10 690)       (10 750)  
    Shareholders’ loan revaluation reserve     (244)       (244)  
    Cash ow hedging reserve           (77)  
    Share-based payment reserve     1 968       328  
    Other reserves     (15)       (31)  
    Foreign currency translation differences of foreign subsidiaries and joint ventures     (14 017)       (4 699)  
          (22 724)       (15 276)  
  * A contingency reserve has been created in terms of the Short-term Insurance Act, 1988. Transfers to the contingency reserve are treated as an appropriation of income, and the balance of the reserve is disclosed in the statement of financial position as a non-distributable reserve, forming part of shareholders’ funds. On dissolution of the special purpose entities to which these reserves relate, they will become available for distribution.
  **

A statutory reserve has been created in terms of local legislation. Transfers to the statutory reserve are treated as an appropriation of income, and the balance of the reserve is disclosed in the statement of financial position as a non-distributable reserve, forming part of the shareholders’ funds.