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CHOPPIES ENTERPRISES LIMITED - Correction announcement: Results for the 12 months to June 2016 and cash dividend declaration

Release Date: 22/09/2016 14:00
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Correction announcement: Results for the 12 months to June 2016 and cash dividend declaration

Choppies Enterprises Limited
(Registration number 2004/1681)
JSE share code: CHP
BSE share code: CHOPPIES
ISIN: BW0000001072
Tax reference number: C08710401018

CORRECTION ANNOUNCEMENT: RESULTS FOR THE 12 MONTHS TO JUNE 2016 AND CASH DIVIDEND DECLARATION

Shareholders are referred to the year end results announcement released on the Stock Exchange News Service
on 20 September 2016, wherein a dividend declaration was included. Shareholders are advised that the dates
regarding the transfers between the South African register and the South African and Botswana registers,
should read as follows and not as stated in the announcement dated 20 September 2016:

In respect of shareholders registered on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange:
The last date to trade shall be Tuesday, 18 October 2016 and shall commence trading ex the dividend on
Wednesday, 19 October 2016. The record date to appear in the register to participate in the dividend will be
Friday, 21 October 2016 and the dividend will be paid on Monday, 21 November 2016. The South African
branch register will be closed for the purposes of dematerialisation, rematerialisation and transfers between
the South African register and the South African and Botswana registers from Wednesday, 19 October 2016 to
Friday, 21 October 2016, both dates inclusive. The exchange rate applicable for the conversion of Thebe to ZAR
for payment to shareholders on the South African register will be confirmed in a separate announcement to be
released on SENS on Tuesday 11 October, being the finalisation date. The issued shares at the declaration date
is 1 291 628 341. The dividend has been declared from income reserves.
Distributable reserves available for the final dividend are net of Botswana withholding taxes at 7.5% deducted
from dividends received from group entities, and as such, can be distributed to shareholders registerred on
Botswana Stock Exchange free of any further deduction. In respect of shareholders registered on the
Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the dividends payable are subject to withholding tax as required under the
South African Income Tax Act. This Dividend is treated as a foreign Dividend.

Botswana
22 September 2016

Enquiries:
Choppies
Ramachandran Ottapathu             +267 3186657 ram@choppies.co.bw
Sanooj Pullarote                   +267 3971855 sanooj@choppies.co.bw

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

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