CENTURY CASINOS AFRICA (PROPRIETARY)
LIMITED
WINLEN CASINO OPERATORS (PROPRIETARY)
LIMITED
Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys
SA Reserve Bank Building, 60 St George's Mall,
Cape Town, 8001
PO Box 248, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Tel +27 21 480 7800 Fax +27 21423
2141
Reference: RA Anderson/jm/132950
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DEFINITIONS AND
INTERPRETATION
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In this
Agreement, unless clearly inconsistent with or otherwise indicated
by the context -
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“the /
this Agreement” means the agreement set out in this document
and the appendices (if any) hereto;
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“the
Auditors” means the auditors for the time being of the
Company;
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“the BEE
Act” means the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act,
No. 53 of 2003;
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“the
Board” means the board of directors of the
Company;
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“Business
Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or statutory
public holiday in the Republic of South Africa;
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“Century” means Century Casinos
Africa (Proprietary) Limited, Registration No. 1996/010501/07
, a private company duly registered and
incorporated with limited liability in accordance with the company
laws of the Republic of South Africa;
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“Century’s Attorneys” means
Bowman Gilfillan Attorneys, of SA Reserve Bank Building, 60 St
George’s Mall, Cape Town, 8001;
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“the
Closing Date” means the date upon which the Sale of Shares
Agreement becomes unconditional in accordance with the terms
thereof;
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“the
Company” means Balele Leisure (Proprietary) Limited,
Registration No. 1998/002723/07, a private company duly registered
and incorporated with limited liability in accordance with the
company laws of the Republic of South Africa;
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“the
Companies Act” means the Companies Act, No. 61 of 1973, as
amended;
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“the
Documents of Title” means:
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the original
share certificates in respect of the Shares to be sold or otherwise
transferred in terms of this Agreement;
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duly signed
share transfer forms; and
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written and
signed cession of that portion of the Shareholders’ Claims
pro-rata to the number of Shares sold;
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“the
Existing Shareholders’ Agreement” means the
shareholders’ agreement entered into between the members of
the Company prior to the Signature Date and effective as between
the members of the Company as at the Signature Date;
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“the
Parties” means Winlen and Century and any other Shareholder
collectively and “Party” shall mean Winlen or Century
or any other Shareholder alone, as the context may indicate or
require;
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“Prime
Overdraft Rate” means the prime overdraft lending rate of the
bank with which the Company conducts the Company’s current
account which, in the event of dispute, shall be as certified by
the manager of that bank, whose authority it shall not be necessary
to prove and which certificate shall constitute prima
facie proof of the contents thereof and which interest shall
be capitalized monthly in arrears;
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“the Sale
of Shares Agreement” means an agreement for the sale by
Chicory Investments (Proprietary) Limited, Registration No.
1985/000896/07, Dynamo Investments Limited, Registration No.
1995/004006/06, Harvest Moon Investment Holdings (Proprietary)
Limited, Registration No.1998/010314/07, Izulu Gaming (Proprietary)
Limited, Registration No. 1998/008061/07, Khulani Holdings Limited,
Registration No. 1979/006828/06, Libalele Leisure (Proprietary)
Limited, Registration No. 1998/011953/07, Malesela Gaming
(Proprietary) Limited, Registration No. 1998/018625/07, Oakland
Leisure- Investments (Newcastle) (Proprietary) Limited,
Registration No. 1997/009965/07, Purple Rain Properties No. 62
(Proprietary) Limited, Registration No. 1997/020100/07, Ruvuma
Investment (Proprietary) Limited, Registration No. 1997/016346/07,
Saphila Health Investments (Proprietary) Limited, Registration No.
1998/011294/07, , Viva Leisure Investment Holdings (Proprietary)
Limited, Registration No. 1997/015979/07, and The Viva Trust No. IT
954/1991, representing in total
approximately, but not less than, 60% (sixty percent) of the issued
share capital of the Company to Century for the sum of R57 500
000.00 (fifty-seven million five hundred thousand rand) or, in the
event of the gross gaming revenue of the Permanent Casino exceeding
R95 000 000.00 (ninety-five million rand) in the first 12 (twelve)
months of operation of the Permanent Casino, the sum of R60 000
000.00 (sixty million rand);
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“Shareholder” means the owner of
Shares in the Company;
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“the
Shareholders’ Claims” means all claims which a
Shareholder might individually have against the Company for monies
lent and advanced or howsoever arising at the relevant
date;
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“Shareholders’ Equity” means
the Shares in the Company owned by a Shareholder together with that
Shareholder’s Claims (if any);
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“Shares” means shares forming part
of the issued share capital of the Company;
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“the
Signature Date” means the date on which the Party which signs
this Agreement last in time, so signs;
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“Winlen” means Winlen Casino
Operators (Proprietary) Limited, Registration No. 2000/029023/07, a
private company duly registered and incorporated with limited
liability in accordance with the company laws of the Republic of
South Africa.
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In this
Agreement, unless clearly inconsistent with or otherwise indicated
by the context:
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any reference
to any act of Parliament or other statutory provision shall be
deemed to mean a reference to such provision inclusive of any
modification, extension, substitution or re-enactment thereof, in
which event the relevant provisions of this Agreement affected by
such modification, extension, substitution or re-enactment, shall
be deemed to have been amended, mutatis mutandis
;
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any reference
to the singular includes the plural and vice versa
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any reference
to natural persons includes legal persons and vice versa ;
and
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any reference
to a gender includes the other genders.
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The use of the
word “including” followed by a specific example or
examples shall not be construed or interpreted as limiting the
meaning of the general wording preceding it and the eiusdem
generis rule shall not be applied in the interpretation of
such general wording and/or such specific example or
examples.
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The clause
headings in this Agreement have been inserted for convenience only
and shall not be taken into account in the interpretation of this
Agreement.
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All appendices
(if any), schedules or like documents attached to this Agreement
shall form part, or be deemed to form part, of this Agreement, for
all purposes mutatis mutandis as if incorporated into the
body of this Agreement.
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This Agreement
shall be governed by and construed and interpreted in accordance
with the law of the Republic of South Africa.
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This Agreement,
save for the provisions of clauses 1, this clause 2 and clauses 16,
18, 19, 20 and 21 which shall be of
immediate force and effect and remain binding on the Parties, shall
be subject to and conditional upon fulfillment of the condition
precedent that the Sale of Shares Agreement is signed by the
parties thereto and becomes unconditional in accordance with the
terms thereof.
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The Parties
shall use their best endeavours to bring about fulfillment of the
condition precedent referred to in clause 2.1
hereof.
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If the
condition precedent referred to in 2.1
hereof is not timeously fulfilled, this Agreement shall become null
and void and the Parties shall forthwith be restored as near as may
be to the condition in which they would have been had this
Agreement not been entered into. No Party shall have any claim
against any other Party pursuant to such non-fulfillment, save for
a Party’s claim to be restored as contemplated
above.
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In the event
that the condition precedent referred to in clause 2.1
hereof is duly fulfilled and this Agreement
becomes unconditional, this Agreement shall commence or be deemed
to have commenced as from the Closing Date.
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In the event
that the Company requires further capital, any such additional
capital shall be financed by way of loans to the Company from
financial institutions and/or other third parties, or from any one
or more, but not all, Shareholders, provided that any loans so made
by a Shareholder are made on an armslength basis and on terms not
more onerous to the Company than the Company would be able to
arrange with a financial institution or other third
party.
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Should the
Shareholders unanimously agree that the further capital
requirements of the Company should be funded otherwise than as
provided in 3.1 and by way of Shareholders’ loans or
subscription of share capital, the Shareholders shall, unless
otherwise agreed in writing, each be obliged to lend to the Company
such sum as bears in relation to the total further capital raised
by way of loans from the Shareholders, the same ratio as the number
of Shares owned by the relevant Shareholder bears to the total
issued share capital of the Company at that time or, in the case of
subscription of share capital, to subscribe for such proportion of
the total additional shares in the share capital of the Company
which are to be issued as bears the same ratio thereto as the
number of Shares owned by that Shareholder bears to the total
issued share capital of the Company.
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The
Shareholders agree that should any financial institution and/or
third party to which application is made by the Company for a loan,
as a condition for the granting of the relevant loan to the Company
require that the Shareholders provide any suretyship, pledge of
shares, guarantee or indemnity in respect of the obligations of the
Company, the Shareholders shall bind themselves jointly in the
proportions of their shareholdings for this purpose on behalf of
the Company unless otherwise agreed between them in writing. In
such event, if any suretyship, pledge of shares, guarantee or
indemnity is given on behalf of the Company by the Shareholders
jointly and severally or by one of the Shareholders and not by the
others, then the Shareholders shall be liable among themselves in
respect of such suretyship, pledge of shares, guarantee or
indemnity in proportion to their respective shareholdings in the
Company at the time of payment under the suretyship, guarantee or
indemnity and any Shareholder which has been required under a
suretyship, pledge of shares, guarantee or indemnity to pay out
more than that Shareholder’s aliquot share shall be entitled
to recover from the other Shareholders the amount paid out in
excess of the Shareholder’s aliquot share.
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Except in the
case of any loan made by a Shareholder as contemplated in 3.1, any
Shareholders’ loans shall:
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subject to any
provisions to the contrary contained in this Agreement or agreed to
in writing by the Shareholders at the time that the loan is made,
be unsecured;
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bear interest
at a rate agreed on by the Shareholders and the Company;
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out of the
profits of the Company available for distribution as a dividend and
only if all Shareholders are repaid simultaneously and
proportionately; or
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on the Company
being wound-up or placed under judicial management; or
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should the
Company sell, or otherwise alienate all or a substantial part of
the assets of the Company.
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Should any one
of the Shareholders (“the Defaulting Shareholder”) at
any time fail to lend and advance to the Company the Defaulting
Shareholder’s portion of any capital which the Defaulting
Shareholder is obliged to lend to the Company pursuant to the
Shareholders having agreed to provide such funding to the Company
in the manner contemplated in 3.2, or at any time fail to furnish
any suretyship, pledge of shares, guarantee or indemnity, as agreed
in 3.3 and remain in default for more than
21 (twenty-one) days after receipt of a notice from the other
Shareholders (“the Non-Defaulting Shareholders”) or the
Company calling upon the Defaulting Shareholder to remedy that
default, the Defaulting Shareholder shall be deemed on the day
following the expiry of the said notice period to have offered the
Defaulting Shareholder’s entire Shareholder’s Equity or
a portion thereof, which, when realized, shall equal or exceed in
value the portion of any capital which the Defaulting Shareholder
is obliged to lend to the Company, for sale to the Non-Defaulting
Shareholders pro-rata and in proportion to their respective
shareholding in the Company on the terms that:
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the offer to
all the Non-Defaulting Shareholders shall be open for acceptance
for a period of 21 (twenty-one) days from the date upon which the
offer was deemed to have been made;
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acceptance of
the offer shall be valid only if made timeously and in
writing;
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the purchase
consideration for the Shareholder’s Equity concerned shall be
the agreed fair market value thereof;
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if, at the
relevant time, the Parties to such sale are unable to agree on a
fair market value of the Shareholder’s Equity so sold, the
Non-Defaulting Shareholders and the Defaulting Shareholder shall
appoint the Auditors to determine the market value of the
Shareholder’s Equity, in which event:
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the Auditors
shall value the Shareholder’s Equity so sold:
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having regard
to the fair value of the business of the Company and the
Company’s subsidiaries as a going concern;
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on the basis of
an armslength transaction as between a willing seller and a willing
purchaser;
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taking into
account whether or not such Shares may represent a minority
shareholding in the Company;
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disregarding
any restrictions in this Agreement or the articles of association
of the Company concerning the transfer of Shares;
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applying such
principles and methods of valuation as the Auditors in their
bona fide discretion deem fit;
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the Auditors
shall act as experts and not as an arbitrator;
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the Auditors
shall reduce their valuation to writing and cause copies thereof to
be distributed to each of the Shareholders;
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the
Auditors’ decision shall be final and binding on the
Shareholders;
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the purchase
price of the Shareholder’s Equity for sale shall be payable
within 14 (fourteen) days of the determination of the purchase
price therefor and against delivery of the Documents of Title, duly
completed;
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upon payment of
the purchase price to the Defaulting Shareholder, the risk in and
beneficial ownership of the Shareholder’s Equity of the
Defaulting Shareholder so sold shall pass to the Non-Defaulting
Shareholders and the Non-Defaulting Shareholders shall be entitled
to have their names entered in the register of members of the
Company as owners of the Shares in question;
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any of the
Non-Defaulting Shareholders may accept the offer deemed to have
been made in terms of 3.5 in respect of a
greater proportion of the Shareholder’s Equity offered than a
Non-Defaulting Shareholder’s pro-rata share thereof, provided
that such acceptance shall only be effected in respect of such
excess if and to the extent that the other Non-Defaulting
Shareholders accept the offer in respect of a smaller proportion
than their respective pro-rata entitlement and provided further
that if acceptances in terms of this 3.5.7
together constitute acceptances for more than the shareholding
offered, then the Shareholder’s Equity offered shall be
apportioned among the accepting Non-Defaulting Shareholders in the
proportions as near as may be to the existing shareholdings in the
Company on the date of the Non-Defaulting Shareholder’s
offer, but on the basis that no Non-Defaulting Shareholder shall be
obliged to purchase more Shares than the number of Shares tendered
for by that Non-Defaulting Shareholder;
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should the
deemed offer of the Defaulting Shareholder, pursuant to the
provisions of 3.5 not be accepted as
contemplated in 3.5 (whether in full or
only insofar as a portion but not all of the Shareholder’s
Equity is concerned), then the Defaulting Shareholder shall be
deemed to have offered the Defaulting Shareholder’s entire
Shareholder’s Equity or a portion thereof, as the case may
be, to the Company on the same terms and conditions, and should the
Company not accept such offer then the Non-Defaulting Shareholders
may, without prejudice to any rights the Non-Defaulting
Shareholders might otherwise have in law or in terms of this
Agreement including the right to claim damages as a result of that
breach, contribute the Defaulting Shareholder’s portion of
the Shareholder’s loan required to fund the Company and
recover the amount thereof from the Defaulting Shareholder on
demand, provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in this Agreement, no Shareholder shall be entitled to
cancel this Agreement pursuant to a breach by the Non-Defaulting
Shareholder of the provisions contained in 3.2 and/or
3.3;
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all costs
incurred by the Company and the Non-Defaulting Shareholders in
determining the value of the Shareholder’s Equity of the
Defaulting Shareholder shall be paid by the Defaulting Shareholder
and be deducted from the purchase price of the Shareholder’s
Equity
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