Appointment of Director to the Master Drilling Board Master Drilling Group Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number 2011/008265/06) JSE share code: MDI ISIN: ZAE000171948 (“Master Drilling” or the “Company”) APPOINTMENT OF DIRECTOR TO THE MASTER DRILLING BOARD In compliance with Section 3.59 of the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited, the Master Drilling Board is pleased to announce: The appointment of Mr Johan Louis Botha (Botha) as an independent non-executive director to the th Master Drilling Board with effect from 12 November 2015. During his career Botha gained extensive experience in the mining industry, including holding General Manager positions with Anglo Gold, BHP and Gold Fields, both locally and in various countries in Africa, such as Zimbabwe, Mali, the DRC and Ghana. The latter included serving as Managing Director and Vice President of Gold Fields’ Ghana operations. He also served as a non-executive director on the board of Mwana Africa Ltd. More recently Botha completed a post graduate Executive Coaching Certificate at the Business School of the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, and he currently coaches executives. CHANGES TO THE MASTER DRILLING BOARD COMMITTEES Shareholders are further advised that simultaneously with Botha’s appointment to the Board, he has also been appointed to the following Master Drilling Board Committees: Member of the Master Drilling Audit Committee; Member of the Master Drilling Risk Committee; and Member and Chairman of the Master Drilling Social and Ethics Committee. Following the appointment of Botha to the Board, the Master Drilling Board has resolved to reconstitute the membership of its various Board Committees as follows: Master Drilling Audit Committee: Jacques Pierre de Wet (Chairman), Akhter Alli Deshmukh, Shane Trevor Ferguson and Johan Louis Botha. Master Drilling Risk Committee: Shane Trevor Ferguson (Chairman), Jacques Pierre de Wet, Hendrik Roux van der Merwe, Johan Louis Botha, Christopher Gerald O’ Neill and Fred George Dixon. 1 Master Drilling Nominations Committee: Hendrik Roux van der Merwe (Chairman), Shane Trevor Ferguson and Jacques Pierre de Wet. Master Drilling Corporate Governance Committee: Hendrik Roux van der Merwe (Chairman), Shane Trevor Ferguson and Akhter Alli Deshmukh. Master Drilling Social and Ethics Committee: Johan Louis Botha (Chairman), Jacques Pierre de Wet, Christopher Gerald O’ Neill, Akhter Alli Deshmukh and Shane Trevor Ferguson. Master Drilling Remuneration Committee: Akhter Alli Deshmukh (Chairman), Jacques Pierre de Wet and Shane Trevor Ferguson. The Board looks forward to Botha’s contributions to the Master Drilling Board and Committees. By order of the Board of Directors Fochville 13 November 2015 Sponsor Absa Bank Limited (acting through its Corporate and Investment Banking division) 2 Date: 13/11/2015 10:00:00 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.