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TKG - Telkom SA Limited - Further Cautionary Announcement

Release Date: 15/07/2008 10:08
Code(s): TKG
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TKG - Telkom SA Limited - Further Cautionary Announcement Telkom SA Limited Registration number: 1991/005476/06) (ISIN number: ZAE000044897) JSE and NYSE share code: TKG ("Telkom" or "the Company") Further Cautionary Announcement Telkom shareholders are referred to the cautionary announcement published on 2 June 2008 regarding the non binding proposal by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vodafone Group Plc ("Vodafone") to acquire a portion of Telkom`s stake in Vodacom Group (Proprietary) Limited ("Vodacom") subject to, inter alia, the Company unbundling its remaining stake in Vodacom to Telkom shareholders and the receipt of a letter from a consortium comprising Mvelaphanda Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, affiliated funds of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group and other strategic funders ("the Consortium"), which states that the Consortium is considering making an offer for the entire issued share capital of Telkom subject to a number of pre-conditions. The discussions with Vodafone and independently with the Consortium are still ongoing and shareholders are therefore advised to continue to exercise caution when dealing in Telkom securities until a further announcement is made. 15 July, 2008 Pretoria Transaction Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities Special note regarding forward-looking statements Many of the statements included in this announcement constitute or are based on forward looking statements within the meaning of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, specifically Section 27A of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including, among others, statements regarding our mobile and other strategies, future financial position and plans, objectives, capital expenditures, projected costs and anticipated cost savings and financing plans, as well as projected levels of growth in the communications market, are forward looking statements. These forward looking statements involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause our actual results and outcomes to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward looking statements. Among the factors that could cause our actual results or outcomes to differ materially from our expectations are those risks identified in Item 3. "Key Information - Risk Factors" in Telkom`s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the U.S. SEC and its other filings and submissions with the SEC, which are available on Telkom`s investor relations website at www.telkom.co.za/ir. We caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward looking statements. All written and oral forward looking statements attributable to us, or persons acting on our behalf, are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Moreover, unless we are required by law to update these statements, we will not necessarily update any of these statements after the date hereof, either to conform them to actual results or to changes in our expectations. Date: 15/07/2008 10:08:01 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited (`JSE`). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.

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