Sibanye appoints chief Operating Officer (“COO”) for the United States (“US”) Regionc Sibanye Gold Limited Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number 2002/031431/06 Share code: SGL ISIN – ZAE000173951 Issuer code: SGL (“Sibanye Gold”, “Sibanye”, “the Company” and/or “the Group”) Sibanye appoints chief Operating Officer (“COO”) for the United States (“US”) Region Westonaria, 24 July 2017: Sibanye (Tickers JSE: SGL and NYSE: SBGL) is pleased to announce the appointment of Ken Kluksdahl as Chief Operating Officer: US Region. Ken, who originally hails from Montana, will play an integral part of the US Regional executive led by Chris Bateman. Ken has over 30 years’ experience in operational mining roles at a number of global mining companies including Homestake Mining, Rio Tinto and more recently, AngloGold Ashanti. Ken served as SVP: Projects for AngloGold Ashanti, North America between 2010 and 2011 and then, prior to joining Sibanye, for six years as AngloGold Ashanti SVP: Colombia. ”We welcome Ken to Sibanye’s US Region executive team and look forward to his contribution. Ken brings a wealth of knowledge in strategic operational leadership, project management and continuous improvement and I am confident that he will ensure continued gains in productivity at the Stillwater Operations,” Chris Bateman, Sibanye Executive Vice President: US Region said. ENDS Contact: James Wellsted SVP Investor Relations Sibanye Gold Limited +27 83 453 4014 james.wellsted@sibanyegold.co.za Sponsor: J.P. Morgan Equities South Africa Proprietary Ltd Forward-looking statements This announcement includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbour” provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as “target”, “will”, “forecast”, “expect”, “potential”, “intend”, “estimate”, “anticipate”, “can” and other similar expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. The forward-looking statements set out in this announcement involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are difficult to predict and generally beyond the control of Sibanye, that could cause Sibanye’s actual results and outcomes to be materially different from historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this announcement. Sibanye undertakes no obligation to update publicly or release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this announcement or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events, save as required by applicable law. 1 Date: 24/07/2017 08:17:00 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.