FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Friday, October 04, 2013

Johannesburg, South Africa, Harare, Zimbabwe, Vienna, Austria, Tokyo, Japan – October 04, 2013 – African Compass International Limited (“ACI” or the “Company”), one of the emerging mining, power generation and agribusiness firms in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and expanding into other regions, Asia Japan based Representative, met in Tokyo, Japan with a high-level representative of a potential Japanese strategic partner to talk a myriad of its portfolio projects.

The meeting discussions at the partner headquarters centered, amongst others, the offtaking of minerals as well as oil and gas exploration.

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

CEO                Chief Executive Officer

CG                   Chief Geologist

CLO                Chief Legal Officer

Company       African Compass International or African Compass International Limited

COO               Chief Operating Officer

HQ                  Headquarters

SADC             Southern African Development Community

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African Compass International

Johannesburg | Harare | Vienna | Tokyo

Directors J Rupare Jr (CEO) C N Rupare (COO) U Mazunga (CLO) V M S Correia (CG)