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28/11/2025 07:00

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RNS Number : 3202J  Tharisa PLC  28 November 2025

Tharisa plc

(Incorporated in the Republic of Cyprus with limited liability)

(Registration number HE223412)

JSE share code: THA

LSE share code: THS

A2X share code: THA

ISIN: CY0103562118

LEI: 213800WW4YWMVVZIJM90

('Tharisa' or the 'Company')

Appointment of a non-executive director

 

In compliance with Section 3.59 of the Listings Requirements of the JSE
Limited, the Board is pleased to announce that Dr Vasileios Vergopoulos has
been appointed to the Board as an independent non-executive director with
effect from 27 November 2025.

Dr Vergopoulos holds a Bachelor of Education from the Thessaloniki University,
Greece and a Master of Chemistry and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Hamburg
University, Germany. He is the former Managing Director of BASF Metals Limited
and the Global Commercial Vice President of the BASF Precious Metals Service
Business. Prior to this, he was the Head of BASF's Refining Catalyst Business
for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, based in the United Kingdom.

He has over 30 years' experience in business management, operations
management, the gas and oil industry, chemical catalyst manufacturing,
e-business, sales and marketing, strategic procurement, and precious metals
trading. He has held various senior and executive level management positions
with BASF, BP and

W.R. Grace in Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom.

Dr Vergopoulos will be serving as member of the Audit Committee, Risk
Committee, Climate Change and Sustainability Committee, and Safety, Health,
Environment and Community Committee of Tharisa. He does not hold any other
directorships at present.

The Board welcomes Dr Vergopoulos and looks forward to his contribution.

 

Paphos, Cyprus

28 November 2025

 

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Investor Relations Contacts:

Ilja Graulich (Head of Investor Relations and Communications)

+27 11 996 3500

+27 83 604 0820

igraulich@tharisa.com (mailto:igraulich@tharisa.com)

 

Broker Contacts:

Peel Hunt LLP (UK Joint Broker)

Ross Allister / Georgia Langoulant

+44 207 418 8900

BMO Capital Markets Limited (UK Joint Broker)

Thomas Rider / Nick Macann

+44 207 236 1010

Berenberg (UK Joint Broker)

Matthew Armitt / Jennifer Lee / Detlir Elezi

+44 203 207 7800

 

About Tharisa - delivering on expansion and growth opportunities,
commercialising technology solutions

Tharisa is an integrated resource group playing a pivotal role in the global
energy transition and the decarbonisation of economies. Leveraging innovation
and technology, Tharisa covers the entire value chain-exploration, mining,
processing, beneficiation, marketing, sales, and logistics-for platinum group
metals (PGMs) and chrome concentrates. The multi-generational Tharisa Mine on
the south-western limb of the Bushveld Complex, South Africa-one of the
richest sources of PGMs and chrome globally, while development of the Karo
Platinum Project, a tier-one PGM project on Zimbabwe's Great Dyke, further
reinforces Tharisa's growth strategy. Investments in beneficiation, including
chrome and PGM alloy production, add significant downstream value. Tharisa is
committed to reducing carbon emissions by 30% by and the  sustainability
roadmap targets net carbon neutrality by 2050. Through Redox One, Tharisa is
advancing proprietary iron chromium redox flow battery technology, utilising
the very commodities it mines to support long-duration energy storage-a key
component in the transition to renewable energy.

 

Tharisa plc is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE: THA) and the
London Stock Exchange (LSE: THS, Equity Shares (Transition) Category).

 

 

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