consolidated income statement
for the year ended 30 June

	Notes		2018 R’000			2017 R’000
Revenue	1		76 963 472			70 998 001
Cost of revenue			(54 716 818)			(50 342 325)
Gross profit			22 246 654			20 655 676
Operating expenses			(16 199 932)			(15 131 637)
Other income			319 558			282 122
Trading result			6 366 280			5 806 161
Income from investments			142 795			210 776
Trading profit			6 509 075			6 016 937
Share-based payment expense			(154 986)			(143 145)
Acquisition costs and customer contracts amortisation			(82 901)			(24 230)
Net capital items	2		(351 977)			1 027 588
Operating profit	2		5 919 211			6 877 150
Net finance charges	3		(1 020 730)			(1 059 560)
Finance income			158 709			232 069
Finance charges			(1 179 439)			(1 291 629)
Share of profit of associates			423 729			379 231
Current period earnings			431 857			354 966
Net capital items	2		(8 128)			24 265
Profit before taxation			5 322 210			6 196 821
Taxation	4		(1 436 597)			(1 328 232)
Profit for the year			3 885 613			4 868 589
Attributable to
Shareholders of the Company			3 817 996			4 769 940
Non-controlling interests			67 617			98 649
			3 885 613			4 868 589
Basic earnings per share (cents)	6		1 137,3			1 430,3
Diluted basic earnings per share (cents)	6		1 132,4			1 423,4
Supplementary information
Normalised headline earnings per share (cents)	6		1 254,9			1 115,4
Headline earnings per share (cents)	6		1 231,6			1 108,2
Diluted headline earnings per share (cents)	6		1 226,3			1 102,9
Dividends per share (cents)	7		556,0			491,0