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Shareholders’ information

as at 31 December 2010

                31 December 2010   31 December 2009  
        Number of       Number   % of issued       Number   % of issued  
  Spread of ordinary shareholders     shareholders       of shares   share capital       of shares   share capital  
  Public     71 202       1 279 613 654   67,90       1 184 393 703   64,35  
  Non-public     21       604 896 433   32,10       656 142 788   35,65  
  – Directors of MTN Group Limited and major subsidiaries     9       2 880 023   0,15       9 006 155   0,49  
  – Empowerment*     4       85 509 785   4,54       10 412 747   0,57  
  – Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie (M1 Limited)     7       184 271 933   9,78       190 084 630   10,33  
  – GEPF**     1       332 234 692   17,63       446 639 256   24,26  
                                   
  Total issued share capital     71 223       1 884 510 117   100,00       1 840 536 491   100,00  

* National Empowerment Fund StratEquity Empowerment Investment and MTN Zahkele.
** Government Employee Pension Fund managed through various asset, investment and fund managers.

 
Stock exchange performance
  December 2010   December 2009  
  Closing price (cents per share) as at 31 December   13 442   11 790  
  Highest price (cents per share)   13 245   13 600  
  Lowest price (cents per share)   9 822   8 181  
  Total number of shares traded (million)   1 786   1 782,38  
  Total value of shares traded (Rm)   174 683   203 273  
  Number of issued shares   1 885   1 841  
  Number of shares traded as a percentage of issued shares (%)   94,8   96,8  
  Number of transactions   1 113 502   947 733  
  Average weighted trading price (cents per share)   9 778   11 405  
  Average telecommunications index   56 472   56 104  
  Average industrial index   26 527   23 241  
  Average mobile index   188   185,8  
  Dividend yield (%)   2,6   1,5  
  Earnings yield (%) (headline earnings)   6,9   7,7  
  Price/earnings multiple (adjusted headline earnings) as at 31 December   15   13  
  Market capitalisation as at 31 December (Rbn)   253   217