Sasol Ltd.

Sector: Industrial Organic Chemicals Not Elsewhere Classified Region: South Africa

Exchange/Ticker: Frankfurt Stock Exchange: SAOA | Johannesburg Securities Exchange: SOLBE1 | New York Stock Exchange: SSL | OTC Bulletin Board: SASOF | Johannesburg Securities Exchange: SOL

Company Description

Sasol Ltd. is an energy and chemicals company. It adds value to coal, oil and gas reserves, using these feedstocks to make liquid fuel components and chemicals. The company refines imported crude oil and retails liquid fuels through its network of retail convenience centers. It also supplies fuel to other distributors and gas to industrial customers in South Africa. The company operates through three following segments: South African Energy Cluster, International Energy Cluster and Chemical Cluster. The South African Energy Cluster segment comprises of the following divisions: Sasol Oil, which handles crude oil refining activities as well as blending and marketing liquid fuels and lubricants; Sasol Gas division distributes and markets Mozambican which produced natural gas and Secunda which produced methane-rich gas to customers in the Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, North-West and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa. Sasol Synfuels, which produce synthesis gas through coal gasification and natural gas reforming, uses its proprietary technology to convert synthesis gas into synthetic fuel components, chemical feedstock and pipeline gas. The International Energy Cluster segment comprises of the following divisions: Sasol Petroleum International, which manages and develops its upstream natural oil and gas exploration and production interests; and Sasol Synfuels International, which handles development, implementation and management of international ventures. The Chemical Cluster consists of businesses that produce polymers, solvents, surfactants, aluminas, waxes, fertilizers, explosives and phenolics. Sasol markets a range of products worldwide to customers in more than 100 countries. It operates through the following divisions: Sasol Polymers, which produces and markets monomers, polymers and chlor-alkali chemicals; Sasol Solvents, which manufactures and markets various solvents and co-monomers; Sasol Olefins & Surfactants, which manufactures and markets surfactants, alcohols, linear alkylbenzene, inorganic specialty chemicals, oleochemicals as well as other organic intermediate chemicals; Sasol Solvents, supply a diverse range of solvents, comonomers, acrylates and associated products; Sasol Nitro, which manufactures and markets ammonia, industrial explosives, blasting accessories and fertilizers; Sasol Wax, which manufactures and markets waxes, petroleum jellies and liquid paraffins; Sasol Infrachem, which converts natural gas into synthesis gas for use as petrochemical feedstock; and Merisol, which manufactures and markets phenolic products. Sasol was founded in 1950 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Executives

David E. Constable, Chief Executive Officer

Appointed to the board on 01/07/2011;former Fluor executive director for the hydrocarbon industry in North America, and subsequently, the mining industry in South America;former vice president of Fluor’s Europe, Africa & Middle East region; former president of Fluor’s Operations & Maintenance business, servicing all of the corporation’s industry sectors; former senior vice president of Fluor’s Energy & Chemicals business group, including upstream onshore/offshore oil and gas, downstream refining and petrochemicals; former president of Fluor’s Power business heading up the company’s activities in the global coal, gas, nuclear and renewable power generation industries; his most recent position before joining Sasol was group president of Global Operations for Fluor, and he was also a trustee of the Fluor Foundation, a member of the company’s Compliance and Ethics Committee and the chair of its Sustainability Committee.

Christine Ramon, Chief Financial Officer

Appointed to the board on 01/05/2006; Member of the risk and safety, health and environment committee; and Past CEO and financial director of Johnnic Holdings Limited; past director of Johnnic Communications Limited and chairperson of Autopax; past director of National Health Laboratory Services and of Tsogo Sun Investment Holding Company. Past standing advisory committee member of the International Accounting Standards Board.

Nolitha Fakude, Executive Director

appointed to the Board on 01/10/2005; a member of the risk, safety, health and environment committee; responsible for Group Strategy and Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs (PPRA), Group Human Resources, Sasol Shared Services and Group Stakeholder Relations; has strategic oversight of Sasol Group Communications, Brand and Marketing, Sponsorships and Government Relations as well as enterprise development through ChemCity;former member of group executive committee at Nedbank Group Limited;former director of Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited former director of BMF Investment Limited; and former director of Woolworths Holdings Limited.

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