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Sasol - Nomination of a candidate for election as Director of Sasol Limited at
the Annual General Meeting of 30 November, 2004
Sasol Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1979/003231/06)
(ISIN: ZAE000006896)
Share codes:
JSE - SOL
NYSE - SSL
(`Sasol`)
Nomination of a candidate for election as Director of Sasol Limited at the
Annual General Meeting of 30 November, 2004
Members of the Company have previously been sent a `Notice of Annual General
Meeting to Members` dated 7 September 2004 in respect of the Annual General
Meeting of 30 November 2004. This notice formed part of the 2004 Annual Report
and Annual Financial Statements.
The election of directors is the second item on the `Notice of Annual General
Meeting to Members` that has been sent to members. In the Notice members were
notified that Mr P du P Kruger, Ms E le R Bradley, Messrs B P Connellan, L P A
Davies and Professor J E Schrempp would retire by way of rotation in terms of
Articles 75(d) and 75(e) of the Company`s Articles of Association, and that they
have made themselves available for re-election with the support of the Board on
recommendation of the Nomination and Governance Committee of the Board.
The short resumes of the directors that will retire by way of rotation at the
annual general meeting and who have made themselves available for re-election by
shareholders are as follows:
Paul Kruger has been Sasol`s non-executive Chairman since January 1997. He is
also the Chairman of the Company`s Compensation Committee and a member of the
Nomination and Governance Committee and the Risk and Safety, Health and
Environmental Committee. He joined the Group in 1964 and became a director in
1986. From 1987 to 1996, Mr Kruger served as chief executive of our Group. He is
a director of several other companies in the Group. Mr Kruger was until recently
the chancellor of the Rand Afrikaans University and is the vice-president of the
South Africa Foundation. He has served in the past as chairman of Business South
Africa and the Industrial Environmental Forum. He is a director of several
companies, including ABSA Bank Limited, ABSA Group Limited and Abagold (Pty)
Limited. Mr Kruger serves on the King Committee on Corporate Governance and is a
trustee of the International Marketing Council. He holds a Bachelor of Science
Engineering (Mining) from the University of the Witwatersrand (1959) and a
Master of Business Leadership from the University of South Africa (1973). He
completed the Executive Program of Stanford Business School in the United States
in 1986 and holds an honorary doctorate of the University of Port Elizabeth.
Elisabeth Bradley has been a non-executive director of the Company since 1998.
She is also a member of the Nomination and Governance and Compensation
Committees of the Board. She is currently chairman of Toyota SA (Pty) Limited,
Wesco Investments Limited, Metair Investments Limited, Rosebank Hotel and the
Winkler Hotel. She is also a director of several other companies, including
Standard Bank Group Limited, the Tongaat-Hulett Group Limited and Anglogold
Ashanti Limited. Ms. Bradley is deputy chairperson of the South African
Institute of International Affairs and chairperson of the Centre for Development
and Enterprise. She holds a Bachelor of Science of the University of the Free
State (1961) and a Master of Science of the University of London (1964).
Brian Connellan has been a non-executive director of the Company since 1997. He
is also the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Risk and Safety,
Health and Environmental Committee of the Board. From 1990 to 2000, Mr.
Connellan served as executive chairman of Nampak Limited and from 2000 to 2001
as non-executive chairman of Nampak. Currently, he serves as a director of
Nampak Limited. He is also a director of several other companies, including
Tiger Brands Limited, ABSA Group Limited, Reunert Limited, Illovo Sugar Limited,
Oceana Group Limited and alternate Director of the Bidvest Group Limited. He is
past councilor of the South African Foundation, The Corporate Forum and The
Institute of Directors and a contributor to both King Reports on Corporate
Governance in South Africa. Mr. Connellan received his Certificate in Theory of
Accountancy from Witwatersrand University in 1961 and became a chartered
accountant with the Public Accountants and Auditors Board in 1963.
Pat Davies has been an executive director of the Company since 1997. He is also
a member of the Risk and Safety, Health and Environmental Committee and a
director of several other companies in the Group. Mr. Davies joined the Group in
1975 and has held various positions in engineering design, project management,
operations management and corporate affairs. He is a director of all major
companies in the Sasol Group and is responsible for the Group`s oil, gas and
liquid fuels businesses, including Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Petroleum
International, Sasol Synfuels International, Sasol Oil, Sasol Gas and Sasol
Technology. He is also responsible for the globalization of Sasol`s GTL
technology. He holds a Bachelor of Science Engineering (Mechanical) of the
University of Natal (1975) and completed the Management Program of Harvard
Business School in the United States in 1986.
Jurgen Schrempp has been a non-executive director since 1997. Since 1998, he has
been chairman of the board of management of DaimlerChrysler AG and prior to
that, chairman of the board of management of Daimler-Benz AG since 1995. He is
also a director of Vodafone Group (United Kingdom) and Compagnie Financiere
Richemont (SA) (Switzerland). Professor Schrempp is founding chairman of the
Southern Africa Initiative of German Business (SAFRI), a member of the Advisory
Council of Deutsche Bank AG, the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business
School, the German Council of INSEAD and the South African President`s
International Investment Council. He holds a Professorship of the Federal State
of Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and Honorary Doctorates of the University of Graz,
Austria and the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.
In addition to the above five candidates for re-election as directors the
Company has received a nomination by a member of the Company for the election of
Ms Imogen Nonhlanhla Mkize as director of the company at its Annual General
Meeting of 30 November 2004. There will be five vacancies for directors on the
date of the Annual General Meeting.
Ms Mkize holds a BSc (Information Systems) (1984) and a Higher Diploma in
Education (1985) of Rhodes University as well as a MBA of Harvard Business
School. She has been the Chief Executive of the 18th World Petroleum Congress,
to be held in South Africa in 2005, since July 2003. Previously she was the
executive chair of the Zitek Group (2000-2003), a management and development
consultancy she founded in 2000 and managing director of Lucent Technologies
(South Africa) (1998-1999), senior manager of Nedcor (1997-1998), executive
director of the Association of Black Accountants (1991-1993), senior management
consultant of Andersen Consulting (1988-1991) and a programmer/business analyst
of Anglo American (1986-1988).
Ms Mkize serves on a number of boards, including Datacentrix, General Cologne
Re, the CSIR, the Financial Markets Advisory Board, Rhodes University and Rhodes
Investec Business School.
Members are referred to the Notice of Annual General Meeting to Members for
proxy forms and voting instructions. Additional proxy forms can be obtained from
the Share Registrars (see contact details below).
NL Joubert
Company Secretary
Business address and registered office:
1 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196
Republic of South Africa
Postal and electronic addresses and telecommunication numbers
PO Box 5486, Johannesburg 2000
Telephone +27 (0) 441-3413
Telegrams `Sasolperk` Johannesburg
Telex 42-6778
Telefax +27 (0) 11 788 5092
Website: http:/www.sasol.com
Share registrars
Computershare Investor Services (Pty) Limited
70 Marshall Street, Johannesburg 2001
Republic of South Africa
PO Box 61051, Marshalltown 2107
Republic of South Africa
Issued by: Deutsche Securities (SA) (Proprietary) Limited
Wednesday, 24 November, 2004
