COMPANY RELEASES

Directors' Shareholdings

16 January 2012

Further to the announcements on 31 January 2011, 18 February 2011 and 13 October 2011 (providing for certain Directors to acquire existing ordinary shares in the Company in a Board approved monthly purchase scheme), Shanta Gold announces that a total of 34,056 ordinary shares were purchased today by certain Directors of the Company.

Further details concerning the share purchases by certain Directors are set out below:

Director Number of shares purchased Share price paid Resultant shareholding Resultant % of issued share capital of the Company
Walton Imrie 14,190 23p 10,175,431 3.75
Gareth Taylor 14,190 23p 845,680 0.31
Paul Heber 5,676 23p 262,609 0.10

Enquiries:

Shanta Gold Limited

Walton Imrie
Mobile: +27 (0) 82 444 2851

Nominated Adviser and Broker

Fairfax I.S. PLC
Ewan Leggat/Laura Littley
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7598 5368

Financial Relations

Tavistock Communications
Emily Fenton/Ed Portman
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7920 3150

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