Kumba Iron Ore : Report on proceedings at the annual general meeting

Kumba Iron Ore Limited

A member of the Anglo American plc group (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number 2005/015852/06) Share code: KIO

ISIN: ZAE000085346 ("Kumba" or "the Company")

REPORT ON PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Kumba held its sixteenth annual general meeting ("AGM" or "the meeting") of shareholders today, 31 May 2022. All the ordinary and special resolutions proposed at the meeting were approved by the requisite majority of votes.

The audited annual financial statements of the Company, and of the Kumba group, including the reports of the directors, external auditors, audit committee, business performance and the social, ethics and transformation committee for the financial year ended 31 December 2021 were presented.

Kumba confirms the voting statistics from the AGM as follows:

Resolutions	Votes cast disclosed as a	Number of	Shares voted	Shares abstained
	percentage in relation to the total	shares voted	disclosed as a	disclosed as a
	number of shares voted at the		percentage in	percentage in
		meeting		relation to the	relation to the total
					total issued	issued share
					share capital*	capital*
	For		Against
Ordinary resolution number 1: Re-appointment of	99.91%		0.09%	305,566,665	94.87%	0.02%
PriceWaterhouseCoopers as independent external auditors
and Mr Sizwe Masondo as individual designated auditor
Ordinary Resolution Number 2.1 - To re-elect Mr Terence	99.77%		0.23%	305,566,599	94.87%	0.02%
Goodlace as a director of the Company

Ordinary Resolution Number 2.2 - To re-elect Mrs Michelle	99.55%	0.45%	305,566,579	94.87%	0.02%
Jenkins as a director of the Company
Ordinary Resolution Number 2.3 - To re-elect Mr Sango	97.94%	2.06%	305,566,615	94.87%	0.02%
Ntsaluba as a director of the Company
Ordinary Resolution Number 2.4 - To elect Ms Josephine Tsele	99.62%	0.38%	305,566,615	94.87%	0.02%
as a director of the Company
Ordinary Resolution Number 2.5 - To re-elect Ms Buyelwa	99.88%	0.12%	305,566,615	94.87%	0.02%
Sonjica as a director of the Company
Ordinary Resolution Number 3.1 - Election of Mr Sango	98.26%	1.74%	305,566,613	94.87%	0.02%
Ntsaluba as a member of the Audit Committee
Ordinary Resolution Number 3.2 - Election of Mrs Mary Bomela	99.95%	0.05%	305,566,576	94.87%	0.02%
as a member of the Audit Committee
Ordinary Resolution Number 3.3 - Election of Mrs Michelle	99.78%	0.22%	305,566,634	94.87%	0.02%
Jenkins as a member of the Audit Committee
Ordinary Resolution Number 4.1 - Approval of the remuneration	99.34%	0.66%	305,540,330	94.86%	0.02%
policy by way of a non-binding advisory vote
Ordinary Resolution Number 4.2 - Approval of the	99.21%	0.79%	305,235,019	94.77%	0.12%
implementation of the remuneration policy by way of a non-
binding advisory vote
Ordinary Resolution Number 5 - General authority for directors	99.51%	0.49%	305,563,928	94.87%	0.02%
to allot and issue ordinary shares
Ordinary Resolution Number 6 - Authorisation to sign	100%	0.00%	305,558,965	94.87%	0.02%
documents to give effect to resolutions
Special Resolution Number 1 - General authority to issue	99.71%	0.29%	305,557,784	94.87%	0.02%
shares for cash
Special Resolution Number 2 - Remuneration payable to Non-	99.92%	0.08%	305,549,463	94.87%	0.02%
Executive Directors
Special Resolution Number 3 - Approval for the granting of	99.93%	0.07%	305,564,686	94.87%	0.02%
financial assistance in terms of Sections 44 and 45 of the
Companies Act No. 71 of 2008
Special Resolution Number 4 - General authority to repurchase	96.60%	3.40%	305,504,236	94.85%	0.03%
shares

*Total issued share capital is 322 085 974.

The special resolutions will, where necessary, be lodged for registration with the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission in due course.

Centurion

31 May 2022

Sponsor

RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

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Notes to editors:

Kumba Iron Ore Limited, a member of the Anglo American plc group, is a leading value-adding supplier of high quality iron ore to the global steel industry. Kumba produces iron ore in South Africa at Sishen and Kolomela mines in the Northern Cape Province. Kumba exports iron ore to customers around the globe including in China, Japan, South Korea and a number of countries in Europe and the Middle East.

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