DUBLIN, Ireland, African Mobile Communications Market to their offering. It is primarily due
to the small number and high cost of fixed-line connections, which seldom
extend beyond the major urban centres.
The mobile market is open to competition in the majority of the countries,
featuring between two and four operators, and it is largely private sector
driven. Based in South Africa and operating in 15 other countries
throughout the world , Sasol is the leading provider of liquid fuels in
South Africa and a major international producer of chemicals, using a
world leading technology for the commercial production of synthetic
fuels and chemicals from low- grade coal.petronas. In South Africa Engen
has in the region of 1 250 service stations and in the region of 450
Quickshop convenience stores. Engen owns and manages a 125 000 barrel
a day (bbl/d) crude oil refinery and a state-of-the-art lubricants
blending plant at Durban . The continent consists of 54
countries and territories housing close to 900 million people at the beginning
of 2005.com/reports/c14195

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"We welcome the Competition Commission's recommendation for
conditional approval of the joint venture to the Competition
Tribunal ," said the parties in a joint statement.
If the go-ahead is given by the South African Competition
Tribunal, Uhambo is expected to be trading as soon as possible
thereafter.sasol.
The Group is engaged in a wide spectrum of petroleum activities,
including upstream exploration and production of oil and gas to
downstream oil refining; marketing and distribution of petroleum
products; trading; gas processing and liquefaction; gas transmission
pipeline network operations; marketing of liquefied natural gas;
petrochemical manufacturing and marketing; shipping; automotive
engineering; and property investment
For the financial year ended March 31 2004, Petronas recorded
revenue of US $25. The former Exel shareholders include a trust
with rural women as beneficiaries, a pension and provident fund with
members who are pump attendants, service station owners and an eminent
women 's group.6% stake in the Natref refinery to
receiving blending components from the Sasol Synfuels refinery at
Secunda (potentially to reduce, as a result of this transaction, to
50%). Words such as "believe",
"anticipate", "expect", "intend", "seek", "will", "plan", "could",
"may", "endeavor " and "project" and similar expressions are intended
to identify such forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive
means of identifying such statements. The factors that could cause our
actual results to differ materially from the plans, objectives,
expectations, estimates and intentions expressed in such
forward-looking statements are discussed more fully in our most recent
annual report under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on Form 20-F
filed on October 29, 2004 and in other filings with the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements apply
only as of the date on which they are made, and we do not undertake
any obligation to update or revise any of them, whether as a result of
new information, future events or otherwise.

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The report offers a wealth of information on the Mobile market, covering:
- Trends
- Analysis
- Players
- Revenues
- Subscribers
- Prepaid
- Spectrum Auctions
- Developments
- Government Policies
- Infrastructure
- GSM
- CDMA
- 3G
- Mobile Data
- Market Issue
- Paging
- Dedicated Services
- SIM
- SMS
- MMS
- GPRS
- EDGE
- WAP
- M-Commerce
- Telemetry
- Location Services
- Bluetooth
- PMR
- TMR
- Mobile Satellite Services

Countries covered include: Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkino Faso,
Cameroon, Chad, Cote D'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia,
Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius , Morocco,
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Tunisia,
Uganda , Zambia and Zimbabwe.za

Information on Sasol LFB

Sasol LFB includes all of Sasol's assets in the liquid fuels
business, encapsulating the entire value chain from crude oil
procurement for Sasol's 63.

Disclaimer

We may in this document make statements that are not historical
facts and relate to analyses and other information based on forecasts
of future results and estimates of amounts not yet determinable.researchandmarkets.

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For more information visit
http:/ /www. Uhambo means "a
journey" in both IsiXhosa and IsiZulu. Worldwide's shareholding in Engen is the
company's biggest investment.

Information on Engen

Engen's core business entails refining crude oil, marketing and
retailing primary refined petroleum products and providing consumer
convenience services through its retail network. All of Sasol's assets in distribution and marketing , as well as
assets in the marketing and storage of fuel oil, are also included. By their very nature ,
forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties,
both general and specific , and there are risks that predictions,
forecasts, projections and other forward-looking statements will not
be achieved.

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In early 2004, the last two countries on the continent, Guinea -Bissau and
Eritrea, launched mobile services.

Joint Statement: Shareholders in Proposed Uhambo Liquid Fuels Joint Venture Welcome Competition Commission Announcement

The new business will include a 25% BEE shareholding comprising
AER and Tshwarisano LFB Investment.

Information on Sasol

Sasol, with a market capitalisation of approximately USD 16
billion, is an integrated oil and gas group with substantial chemical
interests.com.engen.
Sasol LFB's turnover for the year ended June 30 2004 was R18
851-million and operating profit for this period was R1 429-million. Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.newscom.

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(Logo: http://www. The intention was to form a new liquid
fuels business to be called Uhambo Oil Limited.
Uhambo will comprise Engen's Enref oil refinery at Durban, Sasol's
share in the Natref crude oil refinery at Sasolburg in the northern
Free State, Sasol's liquid fuels produced from synfuels components
produced at the blending facility in Secunda and significant marketing
operations branded as Engen, Sasol, Exel and Zenex in South Africa, as
well as liquid fuel operations in 13 other sub-Saharan African
countries.

Internet address:
www. In February 2004, the Worldwide board of
directors decided the company should continue to build on its
experience in the oil industry and to focus on the energy sector in
its broader sense. These
are forward-looking statements as defined in the U.

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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa----South
African energy and chemical company Sasol Ltd, Malaysian National
petroleum corporation Petronas and black economic empowerment partners
Tshwarisano LFB Investment and Afric Energy Resources (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Worldwide African Investment Holdings) today noted the
South African Competition Commission's recommendation to the South
African Competition Tribunal regarding their proposed liquid fuels
joint venture , to be called Uhambo Oil Ltd.co.

com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Africa is the world's second largest continent after Asia, with a total
surface area of 30 million square kilometres .
While the continent presents an enormous market that has seen excellent
growth rates in recent years especially in the mobile sector, it is still a
long way from matching the levels of the industrialised world in terms of
telecommunications. Close to three million Africans are currently on waiting
lists for a fixed telephone line, and the African Telecommunications Union
(ATU) estimates that there is demand to support an additional 60 million
lines.

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In the future Sasol expects
to apply this technology to convert natural gas to diesel and
chemicals.my

Information on Worldwide

Worldwide is a black-owned and managed investment holding company
founded in 1994. DUBLIN, Ireland, African Infrastructure, Fixed Voice and Data Markets to their
offering.
(Logo: http://www.com
Fax: +353 1 4100 980

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The fact that 20 African countries have achieved
triple-digit compound annual growth rates (CAGR) for the period 1998-2003
shows that this phenomenal growth is not just short-lived. As early as 2001, Africa became the first
continent as a whole where mobile phones outnumbered fixed telephone lines,
which individually is the case in most African countries now. However, developments are still hampered by regulatory environments.
Mobile licences frequently require that operators rely on a fixed network
operator for interconnection, and relatively few countries allow their mobile
operators to operate their own international gateways. The company
also manufactures and markets synthesis gas and operates the only
inland crude oil refinery in South Africa.com

Information on Petronas

PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is Malaysia's
national petroleum corporation established on 17 August 1974.
Wholly-owned by the Government, the corporation is vested with the
entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the
responsibility of developing and adding value to these resources. As at end of March 2004, the PETRONAS Group comprised 93
wholly-owned subsidiaries, 19 partly-owned outfits and 55 associated
companies. The company 's involvement in the oil industry
pre-dated the South African Liquid Fuels Charter of 2000 when it
invested in Afric Oil in 1995 and followed with the acquisition of a
51% stake in Zenex in 1997 . While it is expected that the
Maduna group will take an important position in this transaction,
Tshwarisano will also involve previous shareholders of Exel who
currently hold shares in Sasol Oil, as well as Batho Trust (a
broad-based empowerment trust) and other broad-based BEE interests ,
including women's groups. If one or more of these risks materialize, or should
underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may be very
different from those anticipated.

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Internet address: www.

Information on Tshwarisano

Dr Penuell Maduna, the former South African cabinet minister, is
leading a group of BEE investors for Tshwarisano.

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This compares to only 3% penetration of fixed-line
telephony.

Notes for editors:

In November 2004 Sasol Ltd, Petronas (the majority owner of
Southern African-based fuel company Engen Ltd), Tshwarisano LFB
Investment and Worldwide African Investment Holdings - through its
wholly -owned subsidiary Afric Energy Resources (AER) - announced that
they intended to form a joint venture between Engen and Sasol's liquid
fuels businesses (Sasol Oil).
Since its incorporation PETRONAS has grown to be an integrated
international oil and gas company with business interests in 35
countries .
Almost 80% of the company's revenue was derived from its export and
international operations . Over the last decade, Worldwide has undertaken
substantial investments in several economic sectors , most notably in
the oil, financial services, telecommunications and information
technology industries . Engen is represented in 13 countries outside
South Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho , Zimbabwe, Zambia,
Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic
of the Congo (DRC) and Ghana. Engen's turnover for the year ended
March 31 2004 was R18 178-million and operating profit for this period
was R752-million.S.

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Research and Markets: Phenomenal Growth in African Mobile Communications Market Set To Continue

newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
Africa's cellular market is the fastest-growing in the world, gaining more
than 50% in 2002, almost 40% in 2003 and more than 40% in the first three
quarters of 2004 alone. Despite this,
owning a mobile phone remains a luxury afforded by less than 8% of Africa's
840 million people. Sasol manufactures over 200 fuel and chemical products that
are sold in more than 90 countries and also operates coal mines to
provide feedstock for synthetic fuels and chemical plants.7-billion and an after-tax profit of US$6.2-billion. He is responsible
for facilitating and structuring a broad-based and representative BEE
consortium associated with the Sasol LFB that will participate in the
joint venture through , Tshwarisano. Internet address: www. Basic telephony provision remains a major need in many parts of the
continent
This annual report offers a wealth of information on the Infrastructure,
Fixed Voice and Data markets, covering:

-- Infrastructure Issues
-- Regulatory issues and government policies re infrastructure
-- Datacomms Infrastructure, Leased Lines, ISDN
-- Public and Value Added Data Services
-- Leased Lines, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM
-- Brief overviews on all of the major telecommunications carriers and
service providers in 32 African countries

Countries profiled:

-- Algeria
-- Angola
-- Benin
-- Botswana
-- Burkino Faso
-- Cameroon
-- Chad
-- Cote D'Ivoire
-- Democratic Republic of Congo
-- Egypt
-- Ethiopia
-- Gambia
-- Ghana
-- Kenya
-- Lesotho
-- Libya
-- Madagascar
-- Malawi
-- Mauritius
-- Morocco
-- Mozambique
-- Namibia
-- Nigeria
-- Senegal
-- South Africa
-- Sudan
-- Swaziland
-- Tanzania
-- Tunisia
-- Uganda
-- Zambia
-- Zimbabwe

For more information visit
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