Sappi appoints Mark Thompson as Chief Financial Officer

Sappi appoints Mark Thompson as Chief Financial Officer                         
Sappi Limited                                                                   
(Registration number 1936/008963/06)                                            
Issuer Code: SAVVI                                                              
JSE Code: SAP                                                                   
ISIN Code: ZAE000006284                                                         
Stock Exchange Announcement                                                     
08 August 2006                                                                  
Sappi appoints Mark Thompson as Chief Financial Officer                         
Sappi Limited, the global pulp and paper group, today announced that Mark       
Thompson has been appointed as CFO with immediate effect and will join the Sappi
Limited board as an executive director.                                         
Mark Richard Thompson (54) has been with Sappi since 1999 as Group Legal        
Counsel. Prior to joining Sappi he was Group Treasurer at Anglo American,       
Managing Director of Discount House Merchant Bank and previously Head of the    
Corporate Finance Division of Senbank.                                          
Sappi chairman, Eugene van As, said today:                                      
"Mark Thompson brings an intimate knowledge and understanding of Sappi"s global 
business and the broad finance function, and will, I am sure, play an important 
role in developing the group"s future profitability".                           
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NOTES TO EDITORS:                                                               
Additional information on Mark Richard Thompson:                                
He holds BCom, BAcc, and LLB degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand   
(WITS) in Johannesburg.                                                         
He is a chartered accountant, CA (SA).                                          
He read Management Studies at Magdalen College, Oxford                          
He started his career as an investigating accountant at the Industrial          
Development Corporation, before joining Malbak where he was the PA to the CEO.  
He spent 2 years as Head of Corporate Finance Division - Senbank.               
Thereafter he spent 5 years as Managing Director of Discount House Merchant     
Bank, before moving to Anglo American as Group Treasurer.                       
He joined Sappi as Group Corporate Counsel and Tax Advisor in 1999.             
He holds a number of directorships within and outside of the Sappi group.       
Sappi is the world"s leading producer of coated woodfree paper with production  
facilities in nine countries on four continents - Europe, North America, Asia   
(China) and Africa, sales offices on five continents and customers in over 100  
countries worldwide. For further information visit www.sappi.com                
For further information:                                                        
Andre F Oberholzer                                                              
Group Head Corporate Affairs                                                    
Sappi Limited (Reg No 1936/008963/06)                                           
Tel       +27 (0)11 407 8044                                                    
Fax       +27 (0)11 403 8236                                                    
Mobile    +27 (0)83 235 2973                                                    
Andre.Oberholzer@sappi.com                                                      
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