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DATATEC LIMITED - Exercise of DBW SARs: Dealings in Securities by the DBW Plan, Directors and the Company Secretary

Release Date: 26/06/2026 08:00
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Exercise of DBW SARs: Dealings in Securities by the DBW Plan, Directors and the Company Secretary

Datatec Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number: 1994/005004/06)
ISIN: ZAE000017745
Share Code: JSE: DTC
            OTCQX: DTTLF
("Datatec", "the Company" or "the Group")


EXERCISE OF DBW SARS: DEALINGS IN SECURITIES BY THE DBW PLAN, DIRECTORS AND THE
COMPANY SECRETARY

Under the terms of Datatec's Deferred Bonus Warrants ("DBW") Plan, participants
who defer a portion of their annual bonus purchase Datatec Shares with the deferred
amount of their bonus and receive a grant of Share Appreciation Rights ("SARs")
of an equal value. The SARs vest three years after grant provided the participant
remains employed by the Group.

On Tuesday 23 June 2026, participants in the DBW Plan have exercised all their
vested SARs at an exercise price of R93.39 being the closing share price on 22
June 2026.

The grant of the SARs being exercised was announced on SENS on 16 August 2022 and
2 June 2023 and the totals being exercised are shown below:
Grant date            Vesting    Strike    Total number   Appreciation    Number of
                         date     price         of SARs      per share       Shares
                                      R                              R      Arising
15 August 2022    1 June 2025   27.75*       1,955,186*          65.64   1,374,220
1 June 2023       1 June 2026    36.36       1,433,576           57.03     875,435
                                             ----------                  ----------
Total                                         3,388,762                   2,249,655

* The strike price and number of SARs in the 2022 grant were modified to account
for the Special Dividend paid by the Company on 5 December 2022.

SARs exercises of participants who are Directors and the Company Secretary will
be settled by Datatec ordinary shares ("Shares") as follows:

DBW Participant          Role      Number of     Nature of interest       Rand Value
                                      Shares
J P Montanana        Director      1,603,003      Direct beneficial      149,704,490
I P Dittrich         Director        306,640      Direct beneficial       28,637,064
S P Morris            Company         81,662      Direct beneficial        7,626,382
                    Secretary


The DBW Plan is share-settled and therefore required to purchase a total of
2,249,655 Shares in the open market to settle the SARs exercise due to the
participants, including the Directors and Company Secretary with prior clearance.
The Shares to be delivered to participants are subject to a two-year holding
period from the vesting date.

Up to 25 June 2026, 575,782 shares have been purchased at an average price of R
93.8272 per share and a total transaction value of R 54,024,028 on the market as
shown in the table below.

Date of            Number of     Average    Highest       Lowest   Transaction
transaction           Shares    purchase      price        price         value
                                   price     traded       traded
                                       R          R            R            R
23 June 2026         312,256       93.00      93.00*       93.00*   29,039,808
24 June 2026         162,296     94.5033      95.55        93.54    15,337,508
25 June 2026         101,230     95.2950      96.40        94.14     9,646,713
 
* The Shares purchased on 23 June 2026 was one single trade.



26 June 2026

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Date: 26-06-2026 08:00:00
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