Goldplat plc / Ticker: GDP / Index: AIM / Sector: Mining & Exploration
                                  16 May 2012
                   Goldplat plc ('Goldplat' or 'the Company')
                             Director Shareholding

Goldplat  plc, the AIM quoted  gold producer in Africa,  was notified today that
Mrs  Sonia Moritz wife of the Company's  chairman Mr Brian Moritz, has purchased
 250,000 ordinary shares at 11.25 pence per share today.

Further  to this purchase, Brian Moritz's beneficial interest in the Company has
increased  to 1,800,000 ordinary  shares representing  1.07% of the total issued
share capital of the Company.

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For further information visit www.goldplat.com or contact:
Demetri  Manolis, CEO        Goldplat plc              Tel: +27 (0) 11 423 1203

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


Felicity Edwards             St Brides Media & Finance Tel: +44 (0)20 7236 1177
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Notes:

Goldplat  plc, which  has a  market cap  of circa  £20 million, is an AIM-listed
profitable,  debt free  gold producer  and mine  development company focussed in
Africa, which had a strong cash position of in excess of £4.59 million as at 31
December  2011.  The Company has a solid  portfolio of assets including two gold
recovery operations in South Africa and Ghana, which recover precious metal from
by-products  of  the  mining  process  such  as woodchips, fine carbon and waste
grease.   For the FY 2011 these operations produced circa 28,000 ounces of gold.
 Goldplat  also  has  a  producing  gold  mine  in Kenya and two brownfield gold
development  projects in Ghana and Burkina  Faso with near term resource upgrade
potential  from which  it aims  to delineate  in excess  of 1 million  ounces of
resources  by H1 2012.  In  line with this,  the Company has implemented defined
exploration  and development programmes across each  of its projects with a view
to  developing multiple profitable mining operations in the near to medium term.







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