| Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment Transaction Monday, November 21, 2005 Shareholders in Murray & Roberts today voted in favour of the company proceeding with the implementation of its ground-breaking and broad-based black economic empowerment transaction. At both the General Meeting of shareholders and the Scheme Meeting convened by an Order of the High Court of South Africa, shareholders voted in favour of the transaction to buy-back 10% of the issued share capital (33,2 million shares) from shareholders for a total consideration of almost R 500 million.
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| Acquisition of Clough Limited Monday, November 14, 2005 Shareholders are referred to the Group's 2005 preliminary results announcement and 2005 annual report where it was stated, inter alia, that Murray & Roberts had reached agreement, subject to certain conditions precedent, to acquire a further interest leading to control in Australian engineering and contracting group Clough Limited ("Clough").
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| Scheme of Arrangement in Respect of Concor Limited Tuesday, November 08, 2005 Shareholders are referred to the joint announcement by Concor Limited ("Concor") and the Group published on SENS on 14 October 2005, and the even-dated circular to shareholders, relating to the scheme of arrangement in terms of Section 311 of the Companies Act No.61 of 1973, as amended ("Companies Act"), proposed by Murray & Roberts Limited ("Murray & Roberts"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Group, in terms of which Murray & Roberts will acquire all of the shares in the issued share capital of Concor other than those held by Mexican Wave Investments (Proprietary) Limited ("the transaction").
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| Gautrain Project Monday, November 07, 2005 Shareholders are advised that the capital cost estimate for the Gautrain project announced by government recently represents a potential order book to the Group of approximately R 4,5 billion at current pricing levels, over a minimum five-year period commencing with full financial close of the 20 year concession contract.
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| Announcement by Group Chielf Executive Brian Bruce Wednesday, November 02, 2005 We are experiencing a significant increase in construction activity in South Africa and expect this to continue over the next decade at least. The pending Gautrain Rapid Rail Link and VRESAP Pipeline plus long-term developments planned for the power and other sectors, indicates our primary region of construction activity as Gauteng and surrounding provinces.
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| 2005 Murray & Roberts Jack Cheetam Award To Giants Gymnastics Wednesday, October 05, 2005 The 2005 Murray & Roberts Jack Cheetham Memorial Award was presented to the Women's High Performance Artistic Gymnastics Organisation (Giants Gymnastics) at a gala event in Sandton last night.
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| Murray & Roberts Broad-Based BEE Initiative Named Friday, September 23, 2005 Letsema embodies the concept of team work, where it is the tradition of rural communities to come together at the time of ploughing and harvesting to work on the communal fields together.
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| BHD 20M Contract For Nass Murray & Roberts Joint Venture Wednesday, September 07, 2005 The NASS MURRAY & ROBERTS JOINT VENTURE have been awarded the Durrat Bridges Project valued at BHD 20m which incorporates 13 number bridges totalling 3.5km. The bridges will be constructed of precast beams, which will be erected off bunds.
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| M&R Announces A R494 Million Broad-Based Empowerment Transaction Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Murray & Roberts today announced a R494 million investment extending its current black economic empowerment partnerships to a broad-base of staff and community organisations. The objective of the empowerment strategy is to achieve greater than 25% broad-based, direct black ownership in Murray & Roberts by 2010. The announcement today provided details of this initiative which will see 10% of Murray & Roberts Holdings Limited shareholding transferred to four trusts and will result in 9,4% direct black ownership being achieved by early next year.
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| Murray & Roberts Delivers All Round Growth Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Murray & Roberts has announced annual financial results for the year to 30 June 2005 ahead of market expectations and with strong growth across all dimensions of its business.
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| Murray & Roberts 2005 JD Roberts Awards Thursday, July 07, 2005 Murray & Roberts is pleased to announce that the 2005 winner of the JD Roberts Award is Dr Sharon Biermann. This award recognizes Dr Biermann's research contribution into public sector infrastructure investment and development spending, focused on integrated land use, infrastructure planning, land suitability assessment, development prioritization and spatial infrastructure economics.
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| Murray & Roberts Des Baker Architecture Competition 2005 Wednesday, May 04, 2005 The 2005 Murray & Roberts Des Baker Awards ceremony was held at the Johannesburg Old Fort, Constitution Hill on Thursday evening 21st April.
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| Consani Engineering Placed Into Liquidation Friday, January 28, 2005 Consani Engineering, the Cape Town-based manufacturer of liquid and gas tank containers and wholly owned subsidiary of Murray & Roberts, has been placed into liquidation by its directors with immediate effect.
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| Disposal of Interest in Unitrans Tuesday, January 18, 2005 Shareholders are referred to the circular posted to shareholders on 8 December 2004 which outlined details of the salient terms of the disposal by the company of its 44%-interest held in Unitrans Limited ("Unitrans") to Steinhoff International Holdings Limited ("Steinhoff") for a total consideration (cum dividend) of R934 799 698, hereafter referred to as the transaction. At the time of posting the circular, the only outstanding condition precedent was approval by the Competitions Authorities.
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| 57th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, October 26, 2005 The 2005 financial year saw a major shift in the business make-up and strategic focus of the Group. Murray & Roberts has worked to position itself as a world class implementer of major projects in its selected markets. Over the past year the Group has been successful in securing a leadership position in a number of significant global projects, most notably the expansion of Dubai International Airport, Gautrain Rapid Rail Link, VRESAP Water Pipeline and the Pebble Bed Modular Reactor. The latter three are in South Africa and give strong credence to the promise of increased fixed investment into the local construction economy.
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