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AFINE INVESTMENTS LIMITED - SF: Audited Results Year Ended 28 Feb 2025, Dividend Declaration, Distribution Annual Report, Notice AGM & BBBEE Rep

Release Date: 29/05/2025 13:15
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SF: Audited Results Year Ended 28 Feb 2025, Dividend Declaration, Distribution Annual Report, Notice AGM & BBBEE Rep

AFINE INVESTMENTS LIMITED
APPROVED AS A REIT
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
Registration number 2020/852422/06
JSE share code: ANI       ISIN: ZAE000303947
("Afine" or "the Company" or "the Group")

SHORT-FORM ANNOUNCEMENT:
AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 28 FEBRUARY 2025, DECLARATION OF A FINAL CASH DIVIDEND,
DISTRIBUTION OF INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT, NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ("AGM") AND
BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ("B-BBEE") COMPLIANCE REPORT

SHORT-FORM ANNOUNCEMENT: AUDITED RESULTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 28 FEBRUARY 2025
Afine is a specialised REIT holding a portfolio of income generating immovable properties focused primarily
in the petroleum sector, strategically located in four of South Africa's nine provinces. As at the year end, the
Group's property portfolio had a gross asset value of approximately R444.8 million.

Afine's key financial performance indicators for the year ended 28 February 2025 are shown below:

                                                      Audited        Audited
                                                   Year ended     Year ended          Change (from previously
                                                  28 February    29 February           published information)
 Figures in Rand                                         2025           2024                                %
 Revenue                                           48 074 622     44 774 819                            7.37%
 Operating profit                                  81 547 025     80 695 168                            1.06%
 Distributable earnings                            30 552 797     26 980 024                           13.24%
 Basic and diluted earnings per share (cents)           96.19          94.70                            1.57%
 Headline earnings per share (cents)                    42.12          37.19                           13.26%
 Dividend per share (cents)                             41.00          41.10                           -0.24%
 Net asset value per share                               4.61           4.06                           13.55%

This short-form announcement is the responsibility of the Directors of the Company. It contains only a summary
of the information in the Annual Financial Statements of the Company for the year ended 28 February 2025,
which is included in the 2025 Integrated Annual Report ("IAR") and does not contain full or complete details.
The information regarding the prospects of the Company included in the IAR, including any forward-looking
information, were not audited or reviewed by the Company's auditors. The IAR is available for viewing on the
Company's website at https://www.afineinvestments.com/announcements-2025 and may also be
inspected by investors and/or shareholders at the registered office of the Company and the offices of the
designated advisor, at no charge, during normal business hours. In addition, electronic copies of the IAR may
be requested and obtained, at no charge, from the Company's company secretary by sending an email to
sonmari@petroland.co.za.

Any investment decisions by investors and/or shareholders should be based on consideration of the IAR as a
whole, a link to which has been published on SENS and is available at:

https://senspdf.jse.co.za/documents/2025/JSE/ISSE/ANIE/ANIAR25.pdf

The content of this announcement is derived from audited information but is not itself audited. The Company
has based this short-form announcement on the annual financial statements for the year ended 28 February
2025, which have been audited by the Company's auditor, PKF Pretoria Incorporated, who expressed an
unmodified opinion thereon.

CASH DIVIDEND DECLARATION
The Board is pleased to declare a cash dividend (final dividend distribution for the year ended 28 February
2025) (Dividend Number 7) of 22.3 cents per ordinary share. The dividend is declared out of distributable
reserves of the Group.

During the year under review and to the date of this announcement, the dividends declared are as follow:

                                                                                             Cents per share
 Final dividend (No. 5) for the year ended 29 February 2024 paid in June 2024                           20.5
 Interim dividend (No. 6) for the six months ended 31 August 2024 paid in                               20.5
 December 2024

As the Company has REIT status, shareholders are advised that the dividend meets the requirements of a
"qualifying distribution" for the purposes of section 25BB of the Income Tax Act (No. 58 of 1962), as amended
("Income Tax Act"). The dividend on the shares will be deemed to be a dividend, for South African tax
purposes, in terms of section 25BB of the Income Tax Act.

Afine's tax reference number is 901 493 3296. The number of ordinary shares which will be eligible for the final
dividend at the declaration date is 72 536 585.

The salient dates for the dividend will be as follows:

                                                                                                     2025
 Last date to trade "cum? dividend                                                       Tuesday, 17 June
 Shares commence trading "ex" dividend                                                 Wednesday, 18 June
 Record date (date on which shareholders are recorded in share register)                  Friday, 20 June
 Payment date                                                                             Monday, 23 June

Shareholders may not dematerialise or rematerialise their share certificates between Wednesday, 18 June
2025 and Friday, 20 June 2025, both dates inclusive.

TAX IMPLICATIONS
The dividend received by or accrued to South African tax residents must be included in the gross income
of such shareholders and will not be exempt from income tax (in terms of the exclusion to the general
dividend exception, contained in paragraph (aa) of section 10(1)(k)(i) of the Income Tax Act) because
it is a dividend distributed by a REIT.

The dividend is exempt from dividend withholding tax in the hands of South African tax resident
shareholders, provided that the South African resident shareholders provide the following forms to the
CSDP or broker in respect of uncertificated shares, or to the Company, in respect of certificated shares:

a)   a declaration that the dividend is exempt from dividend tax; and
b)   a written undertaking to inform the CSDP, broker or the Company, should the circumstances
     affecting the exemption change or the beneficial owner cease to be the beneficial owner, both in
     the form prescribed by the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service.

Shareholders are advised to contact their CSDP, broker or the Company to arrange for the
abovementioned documents to be submitted prior to payment of the dividend, if such documents have
not already been submitted.

Non-resident Shareholders
Dividends received by non-resident shareholders will not be taxable as income and instead will be
treated as an ordinary dividend which is exempt from income tax in terms of the general dividend
exemption in section 10(1)(k)(i) of the Income Tax Act. Since 1 January 2014, any dividend received by
a non-resident from a REIT will be subject to dividend withholding tax at 20%, unless the rate is reduced in
terms of any applicable agreement for the avoidance of double taxation ("DTA") between South Africa
and the country of residence of the shareholder concerned. Assuming dividend withholding tax will be
withheld at a rate of 20%, the net dividend amount due to non-resident shareholders is 17.84 cents per
share.

A reduced dividend withholding rate in terms of the applicable DTA may only be relied on if the non-
resident shareholder has provided the following form to their CSDP or broker in respect of uncertificated
shares, or the Company, in respect of certificated shares:
a) a declaration that the dividend is subject to a reduced rate as a result of the application of DTA; and
b) a written undertaking to inform their CSDP, broker or the Company, should the circumstances
   affecting the reduced rate change or the beneficial owner cease to be the beneficial owner, both
   in the form prescribed by the Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service.

Non-resident shareholders are advised to contact their CSDP, broker or the Company to arrange for the
abovementioned documents to be submitted prior to payment of the dividend, if such documents have
not already been submitted.

DISTRIBUTION OF INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT ("IAR")
Shareholders are advised that the Company's IAR, incorporating the audited financial statements of the
Company for the year ended 28 February 2025 and the Notice of AGM, has been made available on
the Company's website at https://www.afineinvestments.com. The IAR will be distributed to shareholders
on or about 2 June 2025. Any shareholder wishing to receive a copy of the Integrated Annual Report
should contact Mrs Sonmari Vosloo at sonmari@petroland.co.za.

NOTICE OF AGM
Notice is hereby given that the AGM of shareholders of the Company will be conducted entirely by
electronic communication as contemplated in Section 63(2)(a) of the Companies Act No. 71 of 2008 at
10:00 on Thursday, 14 August 2025 to transact the business as set out in the Notice of AGM.

The salient details are as follows:

 Issuer name                                                                        Afine Investments Limited
 Type of instrument                                                                           Ordinary shares
 ISIN number                                                                                     ZAE000303947
 JSE code                                                                                                 ANI
 Meeting type                                                                          Annual General Meeting
 Meeting venue                                                                       Electronic communication
 Record date to determine which shareholders are entitled to                              Friday, 23 May 2025
 receive the Notice of AGM
 Publication date                                                                         Monday, 2 June 2025
 Last day to trade to determine eligible shareholders that may                         Tuesday, 5 August 2025
 attend, speak and vote at the AGM
 Record date to determine eligible shareholders that may attend,                        Friday, 8 August 2025
 speak and vote at the AGM
 AGM deadline date (for administrative purposes, forms of proxy              Tuesday, 12 August 2025 at 10:00
 for the AGM to be lodged)
 AGM date                                                                            Thursday, 14 August 2025
 Publication of results of the AGM on SENS                                           Thursday, 14 August 2025
 Website link                                                                https://www.afineinvestments.com

Electronic Participation at the AGM
Shareholders wishing to participate in the AGM by way of a telephone or video conference call:
• must contact the Company Secretary at 066 478 0956 by no later than Tuesday, 12 August 2025 to
  obtain a personal identification number (PIN) and dial-in details for the video conference call;
• will be required to provide reasonably satisfactory identification;
• will be billed separately by their own telephone service providers for the telephone call to participate
  in the AGM; and
• must submit their voting proxies to the transfer secretary, JSE Investor Services Proprietary Limited, at
  One Exchange Square, Gwen Lane, Sandown, Sandton, 2196 (PO Box 4844, Johannesburg, 2000) (Tel:
  (011) 713 0800) by no later than Tuesday, 12 August 2025. No changes to voting instructions after this
  time and date can be accepted, unless the Chairman of the AGM is satisfied as to the identification
  of the electronic participant.

B-BBEE ANNUAL COMPLIANCE REPORT
Shareholders are hereby notified that, in accordance with paragraph 16.21(g) and Appendix 1 to Section
11 of the JSE Listings Requirements, the Company's Annual Compliance Report issued in terms of section
13G(2) of the B-BBEE Amendment Act, No. 46 of 2013, has been published and is available on the
Company's website at www.afineinvestments.com.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD

Cape Town
29 May 2025

Registered office:  Unit 4602, Greenways, Strand, 7140
Company secretary:  Mrs S Vosloo
Designated advisor: AcaciaCap Advisors Proprietary Limited, 20 Stirrup Lane, Woodmead Office Park,
                    Woodmead, 2191

Designated Advisor
AcaciaCap Advisors Proprietary Limited

Date: 29-05-2025 01:15:00
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