TIDMPAF 
 
Pan African    Pan African Resources Funding 
Resources PLC  Company Limited 
 
(Incorporated  Incorporated in the Republic of 
and            South Africa with limited 
registered in  liability 
England and 
Wales under    Registration number: 
the Companies  2012/021237/06 
Act 1985 with 
registered     Alpha code: PARI 
number 
3937466 on 25 
February 
2000) 
 
Share code on 
AIM: PAF 
 
Share code on 
JSE: PAN 
 
ISIN: 
GB0004300496 
 
ADR ticker 
code: PAFRY 
 
("Pan 
African" or 
the "Company" 
or the 
"Group") 
 
(Key features are reported in United States dollar (US$) and South African rand 
(ZAR)) 
 
TRADING STATEMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 30 JUNE 2023 (CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR) 
 
This announcement contains inside information 
 
In terms of paragraph 3.4(b) of the Listings Requirements of the JSE Limited, a 
listed company is required to publish a trading statement as soon as it is 
satisfied that a reasonable degree of certainty exists that the financial 
results for the current financial year, will differ by at least 20% from those 
of the year ended 30 June 2022 (previous financial year). 
 
Pan African's presentation currency is the US$ and its functional currency is 
the ZAR. Movements in the US$/ZAR exchange rate affects the Group's US$ reported 
results. The average US$/ZAR exchange rate, that prevailed during the current 
financial year, is used in translating the Group's ZAR financial performance 
into US$. 
 
During the current financial year, the average US$/ZAR exchange rate was 
US$/ZAR:17.77 (2022: US$/ZAR:15.22), and the closing US$/ZAR exchange rate as at 
30 June 2023 was US$/ZAR:18.83 (2022: US$/ZAR:16.28). 
 
The year-on-year change in the average and closing exchange rates of 16.8% and 
15.7%, respectively, must be considered when comparing period-on-period results. 
The weighted average number of outstanding shares as at 30 June 2023 was 
1,916,503,988 shares (2022: 1,926,065,760 shares). 
 
Pan African advises shareholders that its headline earnings per share (HEPS) for 
the current financial year are expected to be between US 2.95 cents per share 
and US 3.35 cents per share, compared to US 3.93 cents per share for the 
previous financial year, a decrease of between 15% and 25%. Earnings per share 
(EPS) for the current financial year are expected to be between US 3.00 cents 
per share and US 3.39 cents per share respectively, compared to US 3.90 cents 
per share for the previous financial year, a decrease of between 13% and 23%. 
 
The decreases in HEPS and EPS for the current financial year, relative to the 
previous financial year, are largely as a result of a 16.8% depreciation in the 
average US$/ZAR exchange rate, while earnings in ZAR terms remained fairly 
consistent with that of the previous financial year, as a result of the 
following primary factors: 
 
  · Revenue in ZAR terms decreased by 0.2% only, as the 15% decrease in gold 
sold volumes previously announced was offset by a 17.5% increase in the average 
ZAR gold price received during the current financial year, and 
  · ZAR gross profit decreased by 3.2%, and ZAR profit after tax decrease by 
5.4%, compared to the previous financial year. 
 
The financial information contained in this announcement has neither been 
reviewed nor audited by the Company's auditors. The Group's results for the year 
ended 30 June 2023 will be released on 13 September 2023. 
 
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to 
constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations 
(EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of UK Domestic Law by virtue of the European 
Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. Upon the publication of this announcement via 
Regulatory Information Service ('RIS'), this inside information is now 
considered to be in the public domain. 
 
Rosebank 
 
1 September 2023 
 
For further information on Pan African, please visit the Company's website at 
 
www.panafricanresources.com 
 
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|Corporate information                                                      | 
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|Corporate office                               |Registered office          | 
|                                               |                           | 
|The Firs Building                              |2nd Floor                  | 
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|2nd Floor, Office 204                          |107 Cheapside              | 
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|Corner Cradock and Biermann Avenues            |London                     | 
|                                               |                           | 
|Rosebank, Johannesburg                         |EC2V 6DN                   | 
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|South Africa                                   |United Kingdom             | 
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|Office: + 27 (0) 11 243 2900                   |Office: + 44 (0) 20 7796   | 
|                                               |8644                       | 
|info@paf.co.za                                 |                           | 
|                                               |info@paf.co.za             | 
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|Chief executive officer                        |Financial director         | 
|                                               |                           | 
|Cobus Loots                                    |Deon Louw                  | 
|                                               |                           | 
|Office: + 27 (0) 11 243 2900                   |Office: + 27 (0) 11 243    | 
|                                               |2900                       | 
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|Head: Investor relations                       |Website:                   | 
|                                               |www.panafricanresources.com| 
|Hethen Hira                                    |                           | 
|Tel: + 27 (0) 11 243 2900                      |                           | 
|E-mail: hhira@paf.co.za                        |                           | 
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|Company secretary                              |Nominated adviser and joint| 
|                                               |broker                     | 
|Phil Dexter/Jane Kirton                        |                           | 
|                                               |Ross Allister/David McKeown| 
|St James's Corporate Services Limited          |                           | 
|                                               |Peel Hunt LLP              | 
|Office: + 44 (0) 20 7796 8644                  |                           | 
|                                               |Office: +44 (0) 20 7418    | 
|                                               |8900                       | 
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|JSE sponsor                                    |Joint broker               | 
|                                               |                           | 
|Ciska Kloppers                                 |Thomas Rider/Nick Macann   | 
|                                               |                           | 
|Questco Corporate Advisory Proprietary Limited |BMO Capital Markets Limited| 
|                                               |                           | 
|Office: + 27 (0) 11 011                        |Office: +44 (0) 20 7236    | 
|9200 (https://www.google.co.za/search?q=questco|1010                       | 
|&rlz=1C1EJFC_enZA816ZA818&oq=q                 |                           | 
|uestco&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1                 |                           | 
|159j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)              |                           | 
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|                                               |Joint broker               | 
|                                               |                           | 
|                                               |Matthew Armitt/Jennifer Lee| 
|                                               |                           | 
|                                               |Joh. Berenberg, Gossler &  | 
|                                               |Co KG (Berenberg)          | 
|                                               |                           | 
|                                               |Office: +44 (0) 20 3207    | 
|                                               |7800                       | 
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