FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, February 01, 2013

Johannesburg, South Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, Vienna, Austria, Tokyo, Japan – February 01, 2013 – African Compass International Limited (“ACI” or the “Company”), Board today announced its management team lead by CEO, Julian Rupare Jr. and COO, Charles Nhamo Rupare, are scheduled to attend next week Monday the Investing in African Mining Indaba 2013, to be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC) in Cape Town, South Africa running from 4th – 7th February 2013.

The Mining Indaba event that is now in its 19th year, is the world’s largest mining investment event and Africa’s largest mining event. It  brings together annually mining’s most influential stakeholders and decision-makers vested in African mining, inter alia, key mining analysts, fund managers, investment specialists, and governments. For more information about the event, please visit www.miningindaba.com.

About ACI
African Compass International (“ACI”) is a global diversified private natural resources company in frontier, emerging/established emerging and developed markets. The Group farms, explores, sources, refines and produces, inter alia, agriculture products, base metals, ferrous & non-ferrous metals, minor metals, platinum group metals, precious metals, oil & gas and commercial energy. Our diversified operations in Africa, South America and Eurasia are supported by offices in Austria, Canada, Japan and Zimbabwe. ACI always seeks partnerships with all its stakeholders that will add value to projects at hand based on the core values of honesty, integrity and vision.

Supporting Resources: please visit www.africancompassinternational.com; follow @Afrikancompass on Twitter, or join ACI on LinkedIn.

For and on behalf of the Company’s Board of Directors

Julian RUPARE, Jr.

CEO & Chair

GLOSSARY OF TERMS:

The following are the main terms and abbreviations used in this webnews:

ACI                 African Compass International Limited and/or its subsidiaries, as appropriate

Board              Board of Directors

CEO                 Chief Executive Officer

CLO                 Chief Legal Officer

Company        African Compass International or African Compass International Limited

COO                Chief Operating Officer

CTICC             Cape Town International Convention Centre

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African Compass International

Johannesburg | Harare | Vienna | Tokyo

Directors J Rupare Jr (CEO) C N Rupare (COO) U Mazunga (CLO)