CPI Rebase and Reweighting announcement National Treasury Department National Treasury Republic of South Africa PRESS RELEASE The impact on inflation-linked Government Bonds of the rebasing and re- weighting of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as announced by Statistics South Africa The National Treasury has assessed the impact of rebasing and re-weighting the CPI, and the changes that will need to be made to the Government’s inflation- Linked Bonds. On the 20th February 2013, Statistics South Africa provided the historic data of the rebased CPI (with Dec 2012 = 100) from December 2012 backwards. The National Treasury has replaced the existing index data for calculation purposes with the new rebased data until December 2012, and further with the new rebased and re-weighed CPI from January 2013. Calculated on the original respective issue dates, the new base inflation indices are as follows (15 digits apply): - R189 – 47,2000152761158 - R211 – 87,1665351223362 - R212 – 87,3559589581689 - R197 – 51,3420704228938 - I2025 – 96,8021997606742 - R210 – 70,4617205998421 - R202 – 60,6334496015480 - I2038 – 96,8021997606742 - I2050 – 96,8913104361331 These base indices are calculated in such a way that the capital value of the bonds is the same before and after the indices were rebased. For Further Information, Please Contact: Monale Ratsoma OR Johan Krynauw Chief Director: Liability Management Director: Debt Operations (012) 313 5337 (012) 315 5274 Date: 22/02/2013 10:55:00 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.