Dealing in Securities by a Director and Further Issue of Shares

In compliance with the JSE Listings Requirements and the AIM Rules, the following information is disclosed:

In accordance with the rules of the Datatec Share Appreciation Rights Scheme 2005, Mr Montanana has exercised 330,669 Share Appreciation Rights ("SARs") granted to him in 2005, which vested in May 2008, at a grant price of ZAR 13.76 per share.  The exercise has been settled using Datatec shares which have been transferred from the Datatec Limited Share Incentive Trust 2005 ("the Trust") which had been holding the shares as treasury shares.

Following this exercise of SARs, Mr Montanana has a beneficial interest in 13,152,626 Datatec Shares representing approximately 7.1 per cent of the total voting rights in the Company.

Following the transfer of shares in settlement of the SARs exercise, the number of Datatec shares held by the Trust as treasury shares is 608,772.  

Datatec also announces the allotment of 7,200 ordinary ZAR0.01 shares following the exercise of share options.  Application has been made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of these shares to the Alternative Investment Market, and to the JSE Limited for the listing of these shares.  Listing on both exchanges is expected to become effective on 3 August 2010.