Exercise of Vested Bonus Shares

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Sylvania Platinum Limited announced that certain Directors, senior management, and employees exercised their rights over 893,000 Ordinary Shares following the vesting of deferred share awards. Of these, 289,260 shares were repurchased at 90.00 pence to cover tax liabilities, and an additional 417,131 shares were repurchased at a 30-day VWAP of 91.61 pence. The company now holds 13,085,925 shares in treasury, leaving 258,575,800 ordinary shares with voting rights.

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Sylvania Platinum Limited
30 September 2026
 

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30 September 2026

 

 

Sylvania Platinum Limited

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

 

 

Exercise of Vested Bonus Shares

 

 

Sylvania (AIM: SLP), the platinum group metals ("PGM"), chrome producer and developer with assets in South Africa, today announces that certain Directors, senior management and employees have, following the vesting of deferred share awards granted to them in August 2023 under the Sylvania Platinum Limited Bonus Share Award Plan (the "Plan") or other as approved, exercised their rights over a total of 893,000 Ordinary Shares in the capital of the Company (the "Bonus Shares"). This has been satisfied by issuing Ordinary Shares held in Treasury.

 

289,260 of the Ordinary Shares were immediately repurchased by the Company at the vesting price of 90.00 pence, in order to satisfy the tax liabilities of the PDMRs and employees.

 

The Plan rules allow for employees to request the Company to buy back shares in addition to the tax portion twice a year at the 30-Day VWAP. A further 417,131 Ordinary Shares have been repurchased by the Company at the 30-day VWAP of 91.61 pence, calculated at the close of business on 25 September 2026.  

 

All of the 706,391 Ordinary Shares repurchased by the Company are being held in Treasury.

 

Of the total 893,000 Bonus Shares being exercised, the following relate to Directors and senior management of the Company who are deemed to be Company PDMRs:

 

Director

Bonus shares being exercised

Shares sold

Bonus shares retained

Total shares held after event

% of share capital (Shares with voting rights)

Sales for tax and dealing costs

Price per share

Other share sales

Price per share

Jaco Prinsloo

204,000

91,800

90.00p

-

-

112,200

1,162,794

0.43%










 

PDMR

Bonus shares being exercised

Shares sold

Bonus Shares retained

Total shares held after event

% of share capital (Shares with voting rights)

Sales for tax and dealing costs

Price per share

Other share sales

Price per share

Albert Jordaan

44,000

-

90.00

-

-

44,000

44,000

0.02%

Ronel Bosman

14,000

6,300

90.00

-

-

7,700

29,706

0.01%

Alpheus Mothiba

25,000

11,250

90.00

-

-

13,750

28,050

0.01%

 















Following the above transactions, the Company's issued share capital amounts to 271,661,725 Ordinary Shares of which a total of 13,085,925 Ordinary Shares are held in Treasury. Therefore, the total number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights in Sylvania is 258,575,800 Ordinary Shares.

 

 

CONTACT DETAILS

 

 




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 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.

 

For more information, visit https://www.sylvaniaplatinum.com/

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)

Name

Jacobus Johannes Prinsloo

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer

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

 

Exercise of Share Awards

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

204,000


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Jacobus Johannes Prinsloo

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Executive Officer

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 exercised Share Awards to satisfy the tax liability

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

91,800


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Albertus Jacobus Johannes Jordaan

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

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

Exercise of Share Awards 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

44,000


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

 

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Ronel Bosman

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer

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

 

Exercise of Share Awards 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

14,000


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

 

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Ronel Bosman

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Chief Financial Officer

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 share awards to satisfy tax liability 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

6,300


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Alpheus Mothiba

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Executive Officer: Human Resources

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

Exercise of Share Awards 

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

25,000


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

 

n/a Single Transaction

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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)

Name

Alpheus Mothiba

2

Reason for the notification

a)

Position/status

Executive Officer: Human Resources

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 exercised Share Awards to satisfy the tax liability

c)

Price(s) and volume(s)

 

 

Price(s)

Volume(s)

90.00p

11,250


d)

Aggregated information

-    Aggregated volume

-    Price

 

n/a Single Transaction

 

 

e)

Date of the transaction

30 September 2026

f)

Place of the transaction

Off Market

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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