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Sylvania Platinum Limited announced on 27 September 2024 that certain Directors, senior management, and employees exercised a total of 455,358 vested Ordinary Shares on 26 September 2024, under the Bonus Share Award Plan, satisfied by shares held in Treasury. The Company repurchased 153,168 Ordinary Shares at 50.00 pence to satisfy tax liabilities and a further 89,374 Ordinary Shares at 46.75 pence from employees, with all 242,542 repurchased shares now held in Treasury.
| Date | 27 Sept 2024 |
| Time | 07:00:09 |
| Category | Director/PDMR dealings |
| ID | 8849F |
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27 September 2024
Sylvania Platinum Limited
("Sylvania", the "Company" or the "Group")
Exercise of Vested Bonus Shares
Sylvania (AIM: SLP), the platinum group metals ("PGM") producer and developer with assets in South Africa, today announces that certain Directors, senior management and employees have, following the vesting of deferred share awards granted to them in August 2021 under the Sylvania Platinum Limited Bonus Share Award Plan ("the Plan"), exercised their rights over a total of 455,358 Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company. This has been satisfied by issuing Ordinary Shares held in Treasury.
153,168 of the Ordinary Shares were immediately repurchased by the Company at the vesting price of 50.00 pence, in order to satisfy the tax liabilities of the PDMRs and employees.
The Plan rules allow for employees to request the Company to buy back shares in addition to the tax portion twice a year at the 30-Day VWAP. A further 89,374 Ordinary Shares have been repurchased by the Company at the 30-day VWAP of 46.75 pence, calculated at the close of business on 25 September 2024.
All of the 242,542 Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company are being held in Treasury.
Of the total 455,358 Bonus Shares being exercised, the following relate to Directors and senior management of the Company:
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Director |
Bonus shares being exercised |
Shares sold |
Bonus shares retained |
Total shares held after event |
% of share capital (Shares with voting rights) |
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Sales for tax and dealing costs |
Price per share |
Other share sales |
Price per share |
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Jaco Prinsloo |
55,000 |
24,750 |
50.0p |
- |
- |
30,250 |
1,570,354 |
0.60% |
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Lewanne Carminati |
43,000 |
19,350 |
50.0p |
- |
- |
23,650 |
1,421,981 |
0.54% |
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PDMR |
Bonus shares being exercised |
Shares sold |
Bonus Shares retained |
Total shares held after event |
% of share capital (Shares with voting rights) |
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Sales for tax and dealing costs |
Price per share |
Other share sales |
Price per share |
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Albert Jordaan |
31,625 |
- |
50.0p |
- |
- |
31,625 |
365,625 |
0.14% |
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Robbie van der Schyff |
27,652 |
12,443 |
50.0p |
- |
- |
15,209 |
48,209 |
0.02% |
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Following the above transaction, the Company's issued share capital amounts to 273,366,725 Ordinary Shares of which a total of 11,552,395 Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in Sylvania 261,814,330 Ordinary Shares.
CONTACT DETAILS
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For further information, please contact: |
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Jaco Prinsloo CEO Lewanne Carminati CFO |
+27 11 673 1171 |
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Nominated Adviser and Broker |
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Panmure Liberum Limited |
+44 (0) 20 3100 2000 |
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Scott Mathieson / John More / Joshua Borlant |
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Communications |
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BlytheRay |
+44 (0) 20 7138 3204 |
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Tim Blythe / Megan Ray |
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CORPORATE INFORMATION
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Registered and postal address: |
Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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Clarendon House |
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2 Church Street |
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Hamilton HM 11 |
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Bermuda
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SA Operations postal address: |
PO Box 976 |
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Florida Hills, 1716 |
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South Africa |
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Sylvania Website: www.sylvaniaplatinum.com
About Sylvania Platinum Limited
Sylvania Platinum is a lower-cost producer of platinum group metals ("PGMs") (platinum, palladium and rhodium) with operations located in South Africa. The Sylvania Dump Operations ("SDO") is comprised of six chrome beneficiation and PGM processing plants focusing on the retreatment of PGM-rich chrome tailings materials from mines in the Bushveld Igneous Complex ("BIC"). The SDO is the largest PGM producer from chrome tailings re-treatment in the industry. In FY2023, the Company entered into the Thaba Joint Venture ("Thaba JV") which comprises chrome beneficiation and PGM processing plants, and which will treat a combination of run of mine ("ROM") and historical chrome tailings from the JV partner, adding a full margin chromite concentrate revenue stream. The Group also holds mining rights for PGM projects in the Northern Limb of the BIC
For more information visit https://www.sylvaniaplatinum.com/
The notifications below, made in accordance with the requirements of the EU Market Abuse Regulation, provide further detail.
Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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Name
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Jacobus Johannes Prinsloo |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Chief Executive Officer |
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b) |
Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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b) |
LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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Nature of the transaction
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Exercise of Share Awards |
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
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- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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Name
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Jacobus Johannes Prinsloo |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Chief Executive Officer |
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Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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b) |
LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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Nature of the transaction
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Sale of exercised Share Awards to satisfy the tax liability |
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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e) |
Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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a) |
Name
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Lewanne Carminati |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Chief Financial Officer |
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b) |
Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) |
Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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b) |
LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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Nature of the transaction
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Exercise of Share Awards |
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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Aggregated information
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- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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Name
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Lewanne Carminati |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Chief Financial Officer |
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Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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Nature of the transaction
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Sale of exercised Share Awards to satisfy the tax liability |
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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Name
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Albertus Jacobus Johannes Jordaan |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Executive Officer: New Business |
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Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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Nature of the transaction
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Exercise of Share Awards |
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Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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a) |
Name
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Robert John van der Schyff |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Executive Officer: Operations |
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Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction
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Exercise of Share Awards |
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c) |
Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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e) |
Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them
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Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated
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a) |
Name
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Robert John van der Schyff |
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Reason for the notification
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Position/status
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Executive Officer: Operations |
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b) |
Initial notification/ Amendment
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Initial Notification |
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Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor
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a) |
Name
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Sylvania Platinum Limited |
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b) |
LEI
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2138005DSKINAZ4OA492 |
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Details of the transaction(s): section to be repeated for (i) each type of instrument; (ii) each type of transaction; (iii) each date; and (iv) each place where transactions have been conducted
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a) |
Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument
Identification code
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Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each
BMG864081044 |
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b) |
Nature of the transaction
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Sale of exercised Share Awards to satisfy the tax liability |
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c) |
Price(s) and volume(s)
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d) |
Aggregated information
- Aggregated volume
- Price
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n/a Single Transaction
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e) |
Date of the transaction
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26 September 2024 |
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Place of the transaction
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Off Market |
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