Issue and Allotment of Ordinary Shares following partial Exercise of Conversion Rights Central Rand Gold Limited (Incorporated as a company with limited liability under the laws of Guernsey, Company Number 45108) (Incorporated as an external company with limited liability under the laws of South Africa, Registration number 2007/019223/10) ISIN: GG00B92NXM24 LSE share code: CRND JSE share code: CRD (“Central Rand Gold” or the “Company”) Issue and Allotment of Ordinary Shares following partial Exercise of Conversion Rights The Company hereby announces that it has received notice of partial exercise in respect of the second convertible security previously entered into with Bergen Global Opportunity Fund, LP ("Bergen") at a conversion price of 0.9 pence, the details of which were announced to the market on 25 October 2016 pursuant to which 5,770,132 ordinary shares (the "Relevant Shares") fall to be issued. Application has therefore been made for the Relevant Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and to the JSE Limited with admission to take place on 18 November 2016. The Relevant Shares will rank pari passu in all respects with all existing ordinary shares in the Company. Following admission of the Relevant Shares, the Company's enlarged issued share capital will comprise 195,029,593 ordinary shares with voting rights. This figure of 195,029,593 ordinary shares may be used by shareholders in the Company as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change in their interest in, the share capital of the Company under the Disclosure Rules and Transparency Rules of the United Kingdom Listing Authority. For further information, please contact: Central Rand Gold +27(0) 87 310 4400 Lola Trollip / Nathan Taylor Panmure Gordon (UK) Limited – Nominated Adviser & Broker +44 (0) 20 7886 2977 Adam James / James Greenwood Merchantec Capital – JSE Sponsor +27 (0) 11 325 6363 Marcel Goncalves / Monique Martinez 14 November 2016 The information communicated in this announcement is inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Market Abuse Regulation 596/2014 ("MAR"). Date: 14/11/2016 01:00:00 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.