Basil  Read  Holdings  Limited   (Incorporated  in  the  Republic  of  South  Africa)  (Registration  Number  1984/007758/06)  Share  Code:  BSR  ISIN:  ZAE  000029781   ("Basil  Read"  or  the  "Company")   CONFIRMATION  OF  CHANGES  TO  THE  BOARD  OF  DIRECTORS  


Shareholders are referred to the integrated annual report for the year ended 31 December 2013, incorporating the notice of annual general meeting and summarised consolidated financial statements for the year ended 31 December
2013, that was dispatched to shareholders on 26 May 2014, and are advised that Mr Charles Peter Davies and Ms Nopasika Vuyelwa Lila retired by rotation from the board of directors of Basil Read with effect from the date of the annual general meeting held on 26 June 2014.

Ms Doris Dondur, appointed with effect from 24 June 2014, succeeds Ms Lila as Chairman of the Company's audit committee.

Johannesburg
21 August 2014
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