Directors: M A Ramphele (Chair), N J Holland
† ** (Chief Executive Officer), P A Schmidt** (Chief Financial Officer), K Ansah
#, C A Carolus, R Dañino*, A R Hill ≠,
D L Lazaro^, R P Menell, M S Moloko, D N Murray, D M J Ncube, R L Pennant-Rea †, G M Wilson
† British, ≠ Canadian, # Ghanaian, *Peruvian, ^Filipino, ** Executive Director
Corporate Secretary: C Farrel
Gold Fields Limited
Reg. 1968/004880/06
150 Helen Road,
Sandown, Sandton,
2196
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Houghton, 2041
South Africa
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MEDIA RELEASE
FINAL ULTIMATUM FOR GOLD FIELDS
’ KDC EAST TO
RETURN TO WORK
Johannesburg, 19 October 2012: Gold Fields Limited (Gold Fields)
(JSE, NYSE, NASDAQ Dubai: GFI) regrets to advise that
approximately 8,500 of the 12,500 employees at KDC East (formerly
Kloof Gold Mine), on an unlawful strike since 14 October, 2012, have
not yet returned to work.
Gold Fields, with the support of the Board of Directors, this afternoon
issued a final ultimatum to the employees still on strike at KDC East,
to present themselves for work starting with the night shift on
Monday, 22 October 2012, and the morning and afternoon shifts on
Tuesday, 23 October, 2012, or face immediate dismissal.
Gold Fields has secured a Court Interdict declaring the strike
unlawful and ordering striking employees to return to work. The
company has also embarked on a comprehensive communication
campaign to encourage striking employees to observe the court
order, and has issued an ultimatum for workers to return to work.
All of these requests have been ignored. Striking employees and
their representatives have also been given sufficient opportunities to
make representations as to why they should not be dismissed, all of
which were not taken up.
ends
Enquiries
Willie Jacobsz
Tel: +27 11 562 9775
Mobile: +27 82 971 9238
E-mail:
Willie.Jacobsz@goldfields.co.za
Sven Lunsche
Tel: +27 11 562 9763
Mobile: +27 83 260 9279
E-mail: Sven.Lunsche@goldfields.co.za
Notes to editors
About Gold Fields
Gold Fields is one of the world’s largest unhedged producers of gold with attributable
annualised production of 3.5 million gold equivalent ounces from eight operating mines in
Australia, Ghana, Peru and South Africa. Gold Fields also has an extensive and diverse global
growth pipeline with four major projects in resource development and feasibility, with
construction decisions expected in the next 18 to 24 months. Gold Fields has total attributable