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Statement by mark Wellesley-wood, Chief Executive Officer, DRDGOLD Limited, in response to weekend media statements attributed to former judge Willem Heath:

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Published: Monday, 14 August 2006 02:00

“The admission by former Judge Willem Heath, reported in weekend media, that his company made payments on behalf of JCI to various recipients and that it was ‘possible’ some of these were former DRD and AIN employees, comes as no surprise to the directors of DRDGOLD.
“The admission by former Judge Willem Heath, reported in weekend media, that his company made payments on behalf of JCI to various recipients and that it was ‘possible’ some of these were former DRD and AIN employees, comes as no surprise to the directors of DRDGOLD.

“A series of defamatory comments made by former DRD employees against the company and its senior executives were reported widely in the media at the height of DRDGOLD’s differences with the Kebble family and were clearly an orchestrated attempt to discredit the company and said senior executives.

“Furthermore, at the time, former Judge Heath – clearly acting on information secured under dubious circumstances – took it upon himself to threaten DRDGOLD directors with legal proceedings and to make damaging statements regarding their integrity.

“It was clear to us then, of course, that these threats and damaging statements were a sham. Former Judge Heath’s weekend admissions amount to his publicly corroborating this himself and discredit his conduct at the time.

“DRDGOLD’s Board of Directors are pleased that continuing revelations about events at that unhappy time in the company’s history serve to vindicate its position at the time. We are grateful to all of those employees who saw through the campaign to discredit the company and continued loyally to perform their jobs, often in difficult circumstances.”

For further information, please contact

James Duncan
Russell & Associates
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+27 82 892 8052 (m)
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DRDGOLD is an intermediate unhedged gold producer with mining interests in South Africa as well as Australasia. The company’s production profile is split equally between the two regions.

DRDGOLD has a primary listing on the JSE Limited (JSE: DRD) and secondary listings on NASDAQ (DROOY), the London Stock Exchange and the Paris and Brussels Bourses. Its shares are also traded on the regulated unofficial market of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the Berlin OTC Market.

For more information, please visit www.drdgold.com

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