LAF - Lonrho - Notification of Major Interest in Shares

LAF - Lonrho - Notification of Major Interest in Shares                         
Lonrho Plc                                                                      
(Incorporated and registered in England and Wales)                              
(Registration number 2805337)                                                   
(Share code: LAF; ISIN number: GB0002568813)                                    
("Lonrho" or the "Company" or the "Group")                                      
TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARES                                  
1. Identity of the issuer or the                                                
underlying issuer of existing      Lonrho PLC (LONR LN)                         
shares to which voting rights are                                               
attached:                                                                       
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):       
                                                                        Yes     
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                     
                                                                       No       
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which            
may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting          
rights are attached                                                             
                                                                        No      
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect          
to qualifying financial instruments                                             
                                                                        No      
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                
N/A      

Other (please                                                                   
specify):                                                                       
3. Full name of person(s) subject                                               
to the notification obligation:    Mackenzie Financial Corporation              
4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd. in trust for       
different from 3.):                Mackenze Cundill Recovery Fund               
                                  (86,408,213 voting rights)                    


                                  Mellon Nominees (UK) Ltd. in trust for        
                                  Mackenzie Cundill Emerging Markets Value      
                                  Class                                         
(33,200,000 voting rights)                    

                                                                                
                                  Chase Nominees Limited in trust for           
                                  Cundill International Company Ltd.            
(7,500,000 voting rights)                     

5. Date of the transaction and                                                  
date on which the threshold is     May 4, 2011                                  
crossed or reached:                                                             
6. Date on which issuer notified:                                               
                                  May 6, 2011                                   
7. Threshold(s) that is/are                                                     
crossed or reached:                11%                                          
8. Notified details:                                                            
A: Voting rights attached to shares                                             
Class/type Situation           Resulting situation after the triggering         
of         previous            transaction                                      
shares     to the triggering                                                    
          transaction                                                           
if                                                                              
possible                                                                        
usingthe                                                                        
ISIN CODE                                                                       
          Number    Number    Number  Number    % of  voting rights             
          Of        Of        of      of                                        
Shares    Voting    shares  voting                                    
                    Rights            rights                                    
                              Direct  Indirect  Direct  Indirect                
                                                                                
129,908   129,908,          127,108,          10.77%                  
          ,213      213               213                                       
                                                                                
GB00025688                                                                      
13                                                                              
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                             
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                            
Type of      Expirati  Exercise/     Number of      % of voting                 
financialins ondate    Conversion    voting         rights                      
trument                Period        rights that                                
                                    may be                                      
                                    acquired if                                 
the                                         

                                    instrument is                               
                                    exercised/                                  
                                    converted.                                  


                                                                                
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying             
Financial Instruments                                                           
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                            
Type of     Exerc  Expira   Exercise  Number of    % of voting rights           
financial   ise    tion     /         voting                                    
instrument  price  date     Conversi  rights                                    
on        instrument                                 

                           period    refers to                                  
                                                  Nominal               Del     
                                                                        ta      


                                                                                
Total (A+B+C)                                                                   
Number of voting rights            Percentage of voting rights                  
127,108,213                        10.77%                                       
9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or      
thefinancial instruments are effectively held, if applicable:                   
10.13% of the voting rights are held by Mackenzie Financial Corporation, as     
investment manager which has a disclosable interest as a result of DTR          
5.2.1R(h).                                                                      
0.64% of the voting rights are held by Mackenzie Cundill Investment             
Management (Bermuda) Ltd., as investment manager, which has an interest but     
no individual obligation.                                                       
Mackenzie Financial Corporation is a 100% shareholder of Mackenzie Cundill      
Investment management (Bermuda) Ltd. and has a total indirect holding of        
10.77% as a result of DTR 5.2.1R(e) and DTR 5.2.1R(h).                          
Proxy Voting:                                                                   
10. Name of the proxy holder:                                                   
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will cease to                          
hold:                                                                           
12. Date on which proxy holder will cease to hold                               
voting rights:                                                                  
13. Additional information:                                                     
14. Contact name:                                                               
Jim Hughes               

15. Contact telephone number:                           +44 (0) 20 7016         
                                                       5105                     
9 May 2011                                                                      
South African Sponsor                                                           
Java Capital                                                                    
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