Changes to the Board of Directors ECSPONENT LIMITED Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Registration number: 1998/013215/06 JSE Code: ECS - ISIN: ZAE000179594 (“Ecsponent” or “the Company”) CHANGES TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Shareholders are advised that Mr Bryan Shanahan has tendered his resignation as Financial Director of the Ecsponent group, effective 31 January 2018. The Board would like to thank Mr Shanahan for his years of dedicated service to the group, where he started as financial manager, and wishes him all the best in his future endeavours. The Board is further pleased to announce that it has finalised the selection of a suitable successor and that Mr Dirk van der Merwe will return as Financial Director of the group on 1 February 2018. Mr Van der Merwe served as the Group’s financial director from September 2010 to December 2015 and acted as company secretary from 1 June 2016. Mr Van der Merwe is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (non-practising). He has gained experience across a wide range of industries and organisations during his career, including a decade at one of the big four international auditing firms. His experience includes financial statement audits and financial reporting for a wide range of entities including publicly traded entities, governance and control assessments, assurance services for large IT projects, risk management and exposure to corporate finance disciplines. The Company will commence a process to identify a suitable successor as company secretary. A further announcement will be made as soon as a successor has been appointed. Pretoria 27 November 2017 Sponsor: Questco Corporate Advisory (Pty) Ltd Date: 27/11/2017 05:29:00 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.