Approval of three onshore Petroleum Prospecting Licences in Botswana SACOIL HOLDINGS LIMITED (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number 1993/000460/06) JSE share code: SCL AIM share code: SAC ISIN: ZAE000127460 (“SacOil” or “the Company”) Approval of three onshore Petroleum Prospecting Licences in Botswana SacOil Holdings Limited, the African independent upstream oil and gas company, is pleased to announce that its Botswana subsidiary, Transfer Holdings (Proprietary) Limited, has been advised by the Botswana Department of Mines that three exploration licenses were duly approved by the Honourable Onkokame Kitso Mokaila, Minister of Minerals, Energy and Water Resources of the Republic of Botswana and are ready for collection. The petroleum exploration Licences Number, 123/2013, 124/2013 and 125/2013 were awarded to Transfer Holdings (Proprietary) Limited on 29 April 2013. Johannesburg 9 May 2013 ENDS JSE Sponsor Nedbank Capital For further information please contact: finnCap Limited (Nominated Adviser and Broker) +44 (0) 20 7220 0500 Matthew Robinson / Christopher Raggett First Energy Capital (Joint Broker UK) +44 (0) 20 7448 0200 Majid Shafiq Travis Inlow GMP Securities Europe LLP (Joint Broker UK) +44 (0) 20 7647 2800 James Pope Chris Beltgens Keyter Rech Investor Solutions (SA) Vanessa Ingram +27 (0) 11 447 2993 Lynne Bothma The Riverbed Agency (SA) Raphala Mogase +27 (0) 11 783 7903 Pelham Bell Pottinger (UK) Philip Dennis +44 (0) 20 7861 3919 Nick Lambert +44 (0) 20 7861 3936 Rollo Crichton-Stuart +44 (0) 20 7861 3918 Date: 09/05/2013 12:00:00 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.