OPT - Optimum Coal Holdings Limited - Disclosure of significant holding of

OPT - Optimum Coal Holdings Limited - Disclosure of significant holding of      
Optimum Coal ordinary shares                                                    
Optimum Coal Holdings Limited                                                   
(Registration number: 2006/007799/06)                                           
JSE share code: OPT                                                             
ISIN: ZAE000144663                                                              
("Optimum Coal" or "Company")                                                   
DISCLOSURE OF SIGNIFICANT HOLDING OF OPTIMUM COAL ORDINARY SHARES               
In accordance with section 122 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008, shareholders    
are advised that a consortium comprising Piruto B.V., a wholly-owned            
subsidiary of Glencore International AG, had as at the close of business on     
Friday, 26 August 2011, acquired ordinary shares and as a result now holds a    
beneficial interest of 14.1% in Optimum Coal.                                   
Shareholders are reminded that the Company is still trading under cautionary    
and to exercise caution when dealing in their shares.                           
29 August 2011                                                                  
Johannesburg                                                                    
Merchant bank and sponsor                                                       
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)                       
Financial Communications Advisers                                               
COLLEGE HILL                                                                    
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