Supplementary Information to Previous Announcement in Respect of Referral by Competition Commission of Polymers Industry Investigation to Competition Tribunal

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Aug 12, 2010, 12:41 ET

JOHANNESBURG, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Further to the SENS announcement made earlier today Sasol (NYSE: SSL; JSE: SOL) wishes to provide the following supplementary information relating to Sasol Chemical Industries Limited (SCI).

Shareholders are advised that SCI houses a number of Sasol's South African chemical businesses such as Sasol Nitro, Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents and Sasol Wax. In Sasol Limited's public disclosures we have reported on a business segment basis and have not provided the turnover of SCI as a legal entity.

The turnover of SCI excluding transfers to the Sasol Group for the 2009 fiscal year was R22,13 billion.

In our previous announcement we have indicated that at this time there is no reasonable certainty as to whether or not SCI will be found to have contravened competition laws as alleged, whether a penalty will be imposed and the quantum thereof if imposed. There is also no certainty that SCI is the correct base from which to calculate a potential administrative penalty.

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