Company announcements

Fatality at Harmony’s Masimong mine

January 30, 2009

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Johannesburg. Friday, 30 January 2009. Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (Harmony) regretfully announces that a locomotive accident at its Masimong mine in the Free State this afternoon resulted in the death of a mineworker.

Management together with the Department of Minerals and Energy will commence investigations on Monday, 2 February 2009.

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

For more details contact:

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

Graham Briggs
Chief Executive Officer
+27(0)83 265 0274

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