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“preference shares”“prime rate”“Rand”“record date”“record date for the rights offer”“Registrar”“Regulation S”“right” or “entitlement”“rights offer”“rights and privileges”“rights participant”40 000 000 convertible perpetual cumulative preference par value sharesof one cent each to be issued in terms of the rights offer at an issue priceof R100 per preference share which will be listed on the JSE, and whichmay be traded under the code “AMSP” and ISIN ZAE000054474, therights and privileges of which are set out in Appendices 1 and 2 to thiscircular;the publicly quoted basic rate of interest (expressed as a nominal annualcompounded monthly in arrear rate) levied by Standard Bank from timeto time on unsecured overdraft, determined by an authorised signatory ofStandard Bank, whose appointment and authority need not be proved;the lawful currency of South Africa, being South African Rand, or anysuccessor currency;the date on which a shareholder must be recorded in the register of theCompany in order to participate in the relevant corporate action;Friday, 7 May 2004, that is the date on which shareholders must bereflected in the Company’s register in order to participate in the rightsoffer;the Registrar of Companies in the RSA;Regulation S under the Securities Act;the entitlement to preference shares pursuant to the rights offer;the renounceable rights offer to shareholders by the Company ofpreference shares in the ratio of 18.4249 preference shares for every100 ordinary shares held at the close of business on the record date forthe rights offer, at an issue price of R100 per preference share;the rights and privileges of the preference shares as set out inAppendices 1 and 2 to this circular, which appendices must be read inconjunction with each other;a shareholder or renouncee entitled to participate in the rights offer;“RPM” Rustenburg Platinum Mines Limited (Registration number 1931/003380/06),a public company incorporated in the RSA;“RSA” or “South Africa”“Securities Act”“SENS”“shareholder”“Standard Bank”“STC”“STRATE”Republic of South Africa;the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended;the Securities Exchange News Service operated by the JSE;any holder of ordinary shares;The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited (Registration number1962/000738/06), a bank incorporated in the RSA;Secondary Tax on Companies;STRATE Limited (Registration number 1998/022242/06), a registeredcentral securities depository in terms of the Custody and Administrationof Securities Act (Act 85 of 1992), as amended;7