Buyback Under Employee Share Award Scheme

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Sylvania Platinum Limited has repurchased 276,692 ordinary shares from employees under its Bonus Share Award Plan at a price of 115.33 pence per share, reflecting the 30-day volume-weighted average price. Of these shares, 218,125 were sold by a person closely associated with a person discharging managerial responsibilities, Albert Jordaan, whose beneficial interest in shares is now zero. Following this transaction, the company holds 11,802,534 ordinary shares in treasury, leaving 259,859,191 ordinary shares with voting rights.

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Sylvania Platinum Limited
04 March 2026
 

 

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4 March 2026

 

Sylvania Platinum Limited

 ("Sylvania", the "Company" or the "Group")

 

Buyback Under Employee Share Award Scheme

 

Sylvania (AIM: SLP), the platinum group metals ("PGM"), and emerging Chrome producer and developer with assets in South Africa, announces that the Company has, on 3 March 2026, acquired 276,692 Ordinary Shares of $0.01 each in the Company ("Ordinary Shares") from its employees.

 

The Ordinary Shares were granted to eligible employees over the tenure of their employment with the Company under the Sylvania Platinum Limited Bonus Share Award Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan rules allow for employees to request the Company to buy back shares twice a year at the 30-Day Volume-Weighted Average Price ("VWAP").

 

The Ordinary Shares were purchased at the 30-day VWAP price of 115.33 pence per Ordinary Share, calculated at the close of business on 2 March 2026 and placed into Treasury to be utilised to satisfy future awards under the Company's incentive schemes.

 

Of the total Ordinary Shares being repurchased, 218,125 relate to a Person Closely Associated ("PCA") to a Person Displaying Management Responsibility ("PDMR") of the Company, as follows:

 

PDMR

Shares Beneficially Interested in

Shares sold

Price per share

Total shares Beneficially Interested in after event

% of share capital (Shares with voting rights)

Albert Jordaan

218,125

218,125

115.33p

0

0.00%

 

For the purposes of the Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Company's issued share capital is 271,661,725 Ordinary Shares. Following the above transaction, a total of 11,802,534 Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in Sylvania is 259,859,191 Ordinary Shares.

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS

 

For further information, please contact:


Jaco Prinsloo CEO

Ronel Bosman CFO

+27 11 673 1171

 


Nominated Adviser and Joint Broker


Panmure Liberum Limited

+44 (0) 20 3100 2000

Scott Mathieson / John More / Gaya Bhatt

 


Joint Broker


Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co KG, London

+44 (0) 20 3207 7800

Jennifer Lee / Ivan Briechle

 


Communications

BlytheRay

Megan Ray / Rachael Brooks

 

+44 (0) 20 7138 3204

sylvania@blytheray.com


 

 

 

CORPORATE INFORMATION

 

Registered and postal address:

Sylvania Platinum Limited

 

Clarendon House

 

2 Church Street

 

Hamilton HM 11

 

 

Bermuda

SA Operations postal address:

PO Box 976

 

Florida Hills, 1716

 

South Africa

 

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) and emerging Chrome producer and developer 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 is treating a combination of run of mine ("ROM") and historical Chrome tailings from the JV partner, adding a full margin Chrome concentrate revenue stream. The Group also holds mining rights for PGM projects in the Northern Limb of the BIC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      

 

 

 



 

Notification and public disclosure of transactions by persons discharging managerial responsibilities and persons closely associated with them

1

Details of the person discharging managerial responsibilities/person closely associated

 

a)

PDMR or PCA Submission

 

Submission for PCA to a PDMR

b)

Legal Person

Jordaan Familie Trust

 

2

Reason for the notification

 

a)

Position/status

 

Family Trust of Executive Officer: New Business

b)

Initial notification/ Amendment

 

Initial Notification

3

Details of the issuer, emission allowance market participant, auction platform, auctioneer or auction monitor

 

a)

Name

 

Sylvania Platinum Limited

b)

LEI

 

2138005DSKINAZ4OA492

4

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

 

a)

Description of the financial instrument, type of instrument

 

Identification code

 

Ordinary Shares of USD 0.01 each

 

 

BMG864081044

b)

Nature of the transaction

 

Sale of Ordinary Shares

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

115.33p

218,125

d)

Aggregated information

 

-      Aggregated volume

 

-      Price

 

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

 

3 March 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

 

Off Market

 

 

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