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NET 1 UEPS TECHNOLOGIES INC - Results of Net1 November 15, 2017 Annual General Meeting

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Results of Net1 November 15, 2017 Annual General Meeting

Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc.
Registered in the state of Florida, USA
(IRS Employer Identification No. 98-0171860)
Nasdaq share code: UEPS
JSE share code: NT1
ISIN: US64107N2062
("Net1" or "the Company")

Results of Net1 November 15, 2017 Annual General Meeting

The annual meeting of shareholders of Net1 was held on November 15, 2017.

Proposal No. 1 — Election of Directors

All director nominees were elected and the votes cast were as follows:


                                                    Votes         Broker
Director                       Votes for           withheld      non-votes
Herman G. Kotzé                40,309,548         1,979,831      5,889,733
Christopher S. Seabrooke       25,417,480        16,871,899      5,889,733
Alasdair J.K. Pein             29,827,900        12,461,479      5,889,733
Paul Edwards                   29,830,080        12,459,299      5,889,733
Alfred T. Mockett              41,743,088           546,291      5,889,733

Proposal No. 2 — Ratification of Selection of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

The ratification of the selection of Deloitte & Touche (South Africa) as the Company’s independent
registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, was approved and the
votes cast were as follows:

          Votes cast
        For         Against       Abstain
     48,026,811     137,780       14,521

Proposal No. 3 — A Non-Binding Advisory Vote to Approve Executive Compensation

The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers was approved, on an advisory, non-
binding basis, and the votes cast were as follows:

        Votes cast
                                             Broker
      For        Against       Abstain       non-votes
  27,603,002    11,874,344    2,812,033      5,889,733

Proposal No. 4 — A Non-Binding Advisory Vote Regarding Whether an Advisory Vote on
Executive Compensation Will Occur Every One, Two or Three Years

The votes cast on this proposal were as follows:

               Votes cast
                             Every               Broker
  Every        Every         three    Abstain     non-
   year      two years       years               votes
38,979,574   2,628,827      653,763   27,215    5,889,733
                   

The Company will hold future advisory votes on executive compensation every year.

About Net1 (www.net1.com)

Net1 is a leading provider of alternative payment systems that leverage its Universal Electronic
Payment System ("UEPS") or utilize its proprietary mobile technologies. The Company operates
market-leading payment processors in South Africa and the Republic of Korea. Through Transact24,
Net1 offers debit, credit and prepaid processing and issuing services for Visa, MasterCard,
ChinaUnionPay, Alipay and WeChat in China and other territories across Asia-Pacific, Europe and
Africa, and the United States. Through Masterpayment, Net1 provides payment processing and
enables working capital financing in Europe.

UEPS permits the Company to facilitate biometrically secure, real-time electronic transaction
processing to unbanked and under-banked populations of developing economies around the world in
an online or offline environment. Net1’s UEPS/EMV solution is interoperable with global EMV
standards that seamlessly enable access to all the UEPS functionality in a traditional EMV
environment. In addition to payments, UEPS can be used for banking, healthcare management,
payroll, remittances, voting and identification.

Net1’s mobile technologies include its proprietary mobile payments solution - MVC, which offers
secure mobile-based payments, as well as mobile banking and prepaid value-added services in
developed and emerging countries.

Net1 has a primary listing on the NASDAQ and a secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock
Exchange.

Investor Relations Contact:

Dhruv Chopra
Head of Investor Relations
Phone: +1-917-767-6722
Email: dchopra@net1.com

Media Relations Contact:

Bridget von Holdt
Business Director – Burson-Marsteller South Africa
Phone: +27-82-610-0650
Email: bridget.vonholdt@bm-africa.com

Johannesburg
November 15, 2017

Sponsor:
Rand Merchant Bank, a division of FirstRand Bank Limited

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