Company announcements

Fatality at Harmony’s Tshepong mine

December 17, 2008

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Johannesburg. Wednesday, 17 December 2008. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) regretfully announces that a chairlift accident at its Tshepong mine in the Free State early yesterday morning resulted in the death of a miner.

A local inspection was completed yesterday and the DME inquiry will be scheduled in due course.

Harmony’s Chief Executive Officer, Graham Briggs and his management team, express their sincere condolences to the families of the deceased.

For more details contact:

Tom Smith
Chief Operating Officer: South Region
+27 (0)84 499 6051

Marian van der Walt
Executive: Corporate & Investor Relations
+27 (0)82 888 1242