OPT - Optimum Coal Holdings Limited - Finalisation announcement in respect of

OPT - Optimum Coal Holdings Limited - Finalisation announcement in respect of   
the delisting of optimum from the main board of the exchange operated by The JSE
Limited (such delisting, the "delisting")                                       
Optimum Coal Holdings Limited                                                   
(Registration No. 2006/007799/06)                                               
Share Code: OPT                                                                 
ISIN Code: ZAE000144663                                                         
("Optimum")                                                                     
FINALISATION ANNOUNCEMENT IN RESPECT OF THE DELISTING OF OPTIMUM FROM THE MAIN  
BOARD OF THE EXCHANGE OPERATED BY THE JSE LIMITED (SUCH DELISTING, THE          
"Delisting")                                                                    
1    Shareholders are referred to the announcement, which was released on SENS  
    on 12 June 2012 and published in the press on 13 June 2012 (such            
    announcement, the "Results Announcement"), in which shareholders were       
    advised that the special and ordinary resolutions required to give effect   
to the Delisting were approved by the requisite majority of votes at the    
    general meeting of Optimum held on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at the offices of  
    Optimum, 36 Fricker Road, Illovo, 2193.                                     
2    Shareholders are advised that the Delisting is now unconditional and will  
be implemented in accordance with the timetable set out in the Results      
    Announcement.                                                               
3    The salient dates and times relating to the Delisting are repeated below   
    for convenience:                                                            
2012                             

                                                                                
                                                                                
Last Day to Trade in order to be registered on  Friday, 29 June                 
the Record Date for the Delisting                                               
Suspension of listing of Optimum shares on the  Monday, 2 July                  
exchange operated by the JSE Limited                                            
Record Date for the Delisting                   Friday, 6 July                  
Termination of listing of Optimum shares on the Monday, 9 July                  
exchange operated by the JSE Limited at the                                     
commencement of trade on or about                                               
Johannesburg                                                                    
22 June 2012                                                                    
Sponsor to Optimum                                                              
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)                       
Legal Adviser to Optimum                                                        
Webber Wentzel                                                                  
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