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Investec PLC 20 August 2007 Investec Limited Investec plc Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa Incorporated in England and Wales Registration number 1925/002833/06 Registration number 3633621 JSE share code: INL JSE share code: INP ISIN: ZAE000081949 ISIN: GB00B17BBQ50 As part of the dual listed company ('DLC') structure, Investec plc and Investec Limited notify both the London Stock Exchange and the JSE Limited of matters which are required to be disclosed under the Disclosure and Listing Rules of the United Kingdom Listing Authority (the 'UKLA')and/or the JSE Listing Requirements. Accordingly, we advise of the following: TR-1i: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES 1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares to which voting rights are attached (ii): Investec plc 2. Reason for the notification (please state Yes/No): An acquisition or disposal of voting rights: Yes An acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached: N/A An event changing the breakdown of voting rights: N/A Other (please specify): N/A 3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification obligation (iii): FMR Corp is the parent holding company of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCO), investment manager for US mutual funds, and Fidelity Management Trust Company (FMTC), a US state chartered bank which acts as a trustee or investment manager of various pension and trust accounts. 4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.) (iv): Shares Held Nominee Management Company 244,100 Bank of New York FMTC 2,162,650 Brown Brothers Harriman and Co FMRCO 8,554 Brown Brothers Harriman and Co FMTC 272,710 CIBC Mellon Trust FMTC 12,170,740 JP Morgan Chase Bank FMRCO 152,300 JP Morgan Chase Bank FMTC 27,200 Mellon Bank N.A. FMR 37,700 Mellon Bank N.A. FMRCO 31,100 Mellon Bank N.A. FMTC 413,500 Northern Trust Co FMRCO 539,800 Northern Trust Co FMTC 15,400 Northern Trust London FMRCO 272,900 State Street Bank and TR Co FICL 15,530 State Street Bank and TR Co FMR 1,471,060 State Street Bank and TR Co FMRCO 7,695,260 State Street Bank and TR Co FMTC 5. Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is crossed or reached (v): 15 August 2007 6. Date on which issuer notified: 20 August 2007 7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 5% 8. Notified details: A: Voting rights attached to shares Class/type of shares if Situation previous to the Resulting situation after possible using the ISIN Triggering transaction the triggering transaction CODE (vi) (vi) Number of shares Number of voting Rights (viii) Investec plc Ordinary Shares (ISIN GB00B17BBQ50) 25,773,244 25,773,244 Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (vii) Class/type of shares if possible Number of Number of voting % of voting using the ISIN CODE shares rights (ix) rights Direct Direct Indirect (xi) Direct Indirect (x) Investec plc Ordinary Shares (ISIN GB00B17BBQ50) 25,530,504 4.19% B: Financial Instruments Resulting situation after the triggering transaction (xii) Type of Expiration Exercise/ Number of voting rights that may % of financial Date Conversion be acquired if the instrument is voting instrument (xiii) Period/ Date exercised/ converted. rights (xiv) NIL NIL NIL NIL NIL Total (A+B) Number of voting rights % of voting rights 25,530,504 4.19% 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable (XV) : Shares Held Nominee Management Company 244,100 Bank of New York FMTC 2,162,650 Brown Brothers Harriman and Co FMRCO 8,554 Brown Brothers Harriman and Co FMTC 272,710 CIBC Mellon Trust FMTC 12,170,740 JP Morgan Chase Bank FMRCO 152,300 JP Morgan Chase Bank FMTC 27,200 Mellon Bank N.A. FMR 37,700 Mellon Bank N.A. FMRCO 31,100 Mellon Bank N.A. FMTC 413,500 Northern Trust Co FMRCO 539,800 Northern Trust Co FMTC 15,400 Northern Trust London FMRCO 272,900 State Street Bank and TR Co FICL 15,530 State Street Bank and TR Co FMR 1,471,060 State Street Bank and TR Co FMRCO 7,695,260 State Street Bank and TR Co FMTC Proxy Voting: 10. Name of the proxy holder: FMR Corp 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder will acquire to hold: 242,740 shares disposed 12. Date on which proxy holder will acquire to hold voting rights: 15 August 2007 13. Additional information: None 14. Contact name: Rani Jandu 15. Contact: fil-regulatoryreporting@uk.fid-intl.com Annex to Notification Of Major Interests In Shares (xvi) A: Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation Full name (including legal form for legal entities): Contact address (registered office for legal entities) Phone number: Other useful information (at least legal representative for legal persons): N/A B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable (xvii) Full name: Contact address: Phone number: Other useful information (e.g. functional relationship with the person or legal entity subject to the notification obligation): N/A C: Additional information : N/A Notes to the Forms (i) This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed with the competent authority. (ii) Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable and accurate. (iii) This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the person acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases provided for in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are attached, as appropriate. In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be mentioned: - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person that acquires the voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for consideration the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding the collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateral under these conditions; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a life interest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the voting rights attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is created; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and, provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under DTR 5.1, under DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations, the controlled undertaking; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls the voting rights; - in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his discretion. (iv) Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should be the full name of the shareholder who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2. (v) The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the case of an off exchange transaction, date of the entering into an agreement. The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect (see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event took effect. (vi) Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification, in case the situation previous to the triggering transaction was below 3%, please state 'below 3%'. (vii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new holding is less than 3%. For the case provided for in DTR5.2.1(a), there should be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the agreement unless a party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9 threshold. This applies upon entering into, introducing changes to or terminating an agreement. (viii) Direct and indirect (ix) In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached 'direct holding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split the voting rights number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if there is no combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank. (x) Voting rights to shares in respect of which the notifying party is a direct shareholder (DTR 5.1) (xi) Voting rights held by the notifying party as an indirect shareholder (DTR 5.2.1) (xii) If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new holding is below 3%. (xiii) date of maturity / expiration of the finical instrument i.e. the date when the right to acquire shares ends. (xiv) If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the period- for example once every three months starting from the (date) (xv) The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The notification should also include the amount of voting rights and the percentage held by each controlled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking holds 5% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking. (xvi ) This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority. (xvii) Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of the shareholder or the natural person/legal entity referred to in DTR5.2 and DTR5.3 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

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