HAR - Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited - Harmony`s Target mine accident      
update: Rescue workers bring two employees to safety                            
Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited                                             
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)                                  
Registration number 1950/038232/06                                              
ISIN ZAE000015228        Issuer code: HAPS                                      
TRADING SYMBOLS: Ordinary Shares: JSE Limited: HAR,                             
New York Stock Exchange, Inc., HMY, London Stock Exchange plc: HRM              
Euronext Paris: HG, Euronext Brussels: HMY, Berlin Stock Exchange: HAM1,        
NASDAQ: HMY                                                                     
Harmony`s Target mine accident update: Rescue workers bring two employees to    
safety                                                                          
Johannesburg. Tuesday, 27 October 2009. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited     
(Harmony) announced this morning that rescue workers have brought to safety     
the two employees trapped underground following yesterday`s rockfall at the     
company`s Target Mine in the Free State.                                        
All employees involved were accounted for at 20:00 last night.                  
The two rescued employees both sustained injuries and have been admitted to     
hospital. Their condition is stable.                                            
Two employees died in yesterday`s rockfall, the circumstances of which are      
being investigated both internally and in conjunction with the Safety           
Inspectorate of the Department of Mineral Resources. Production at the mine     
was stopped by management shortly after the rockfall. Measures are being        
taken, however, to ensure that the area in the main decline where the           
rockfall took place is secured and that working places are supported and made   
safe.                                                                           
Management extends its deepest condolences to the families, friends and         
colleagues of the men who died.                                                 
For more details contact:                                                       
Marian van der Walt                                                             
Executive:  Corporate and Investor Relations                                    
on +27 (0)82 888 1242                                                           
or                                                                              
Esha Brijmohan                                                                  
Investor Relations Officer                                                      
on +27 (0)82 759 1775                                                           
Corporate Office:                                                               
Randfontein Office Park                                                         
P O Box 2                                                                       
Randfontein                                                                     
South Africa 1760                                                               
T +27 (11) 411 2000                                                             
www.harmony.co.za                                                               
Sponsor:                                                                        
J.P. Morgan Equities Limited                                                    
Date: 27/10/2009 13:05:04 Supplied by www.sharenet.co.za                     
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