Further Issue Of Shares Datatec Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number: 1994/005004/06) ISIN: ZAE000017745 Share Code: DTC FURTHER ISSUE OF SHARES Datatec Limited, “Datatec” or the “Group”, (JSE and AIM: DTC), the international Information and Communications Technology (ICT) group, announces the issue of 72,095 ordinary ZAR0.01 shares as the final part of the initial consideration for the acquisition of the minority interest in Westcon Africa which was announced on 22 May 2012. Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of these shares to the Alternative Investment Market, and to the JSE Limited for the listing of these shares. Listing on both exchanges is expected to become effective on 8 October 2012. Following this listing, Datatec will have an issued share capital of 191,716,831 ordinary ZAR0.01 shares of which 14,274 are Treasury Shares held by the Datatec Share Incentive Trust 2005. Enquiries: Datatec Limited (www.datatec.co.za) Jens Montanana, Chief Executive +44 (0) 1753 797118 Officer Rob Evans – Chief Financial +27 (0) 11 233 1221 Officer Wilna de Villiers – Group +27 (0) 11 233 1013 Marketing Manager Jefferies International Limited – Nominated Advisor and Broker Nick Adams/Alex Collins +44 (0) 20 7029 8000 finnCap – Broker Tom Jenkins/Henrik Persson +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 College Hill Adrian Duffield/Rozi Morris (UK) +44 (0) 20 7457 2020 Frederic Cornet/Lexi Ball (SA) +27 (0) 11 447 3030 Sandton 5 October 2012 Sponsor RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited) Date: 05/10/2012 04:30:00 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.