VOD - Vodacom Group Limited - Results of the Odd-Lot Offer and Specific Offer

VOD - Vodacom Group Limited - Results of the Odd-Lot Offer and Specific Offer   
to Repurchase Shares                                                            
VODACOM GROUP LIMITED                                                           
(Registration number 1993/005461/06)                                            
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)                                  
JSE share code: VOD & ISIN: ZAE000132577                                        
("Vodacom" or "the company")                                                    
RESULTS OF THE ODD-LOT OFFER AND SPECIFIC OFFER TO REPURCHASE SHARES            
Vodacom shareholders are hereby advised of the outcome of the odd-lot offer     
and specific offer to repurchase shares, both of which closed on Friday 26      
March 2010.                                                                     
The results of the odd-lot offer are as follows:                                
               Shares        Shares sold Shares      Total                      
               retained by   by election sold by     shares                     
               election                  default*    sold                       
Certificated    3 549         1 674       91 239      92 913                    
Dematerialised  424 914       68 267      1 483 988   1 552 255                 
Total           428 463       69 941      1 575 227   1 645 168                 
*Odd-lot holders who did not make an election were automatically regarded as    
having chosen to sell their odd-lot holdings.                                   
The results of the specific offer are as follows:                               
                     Shares sold by election                                    
Certificated          53 231                                                    
Dematerialised        728 072                                                   
Total                 781 303                                                   
Vodacom, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Wheatfields Investments 276       
(Proprietary) Limited, repurchased a total of 2 426 471 shares, representing    
0.16% of the issued share capital of the company for a total consideration of   
R137 362 523. The number of shareholders was reduced by 50 005 representing     
approximately 52% of the total number of shareholders.                          
Midrand                                                                         
29 March 2010                                                                   
Merchant bank and transaction sponsor to Vodacom                                
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)                       
Sponsor to Vodacom                                                              
UBS South Africa (Proprietary) Limited                                          
Attorneys to Vodacom                                                            
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr Incorporated                                              
Date: 29/03/2010 13:42:01 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za                     
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