Dimension Data Results Ahead of the Market

Group Positioned in the Sweet Spot of IT and Communications Spend

LONDON and JOHANNESBURG, November 18 - London and JSE-listed Dimension Data Holdings plc today announced its
results for the year to end-September 2009. The Group's robust performance
for the year to 30 September 2009 has resulted in improved returns and strong
growth in profitability.

Given the extremely challenging economic conditions that prevailed over
the period the Group did well to report flat revenues overall in constant
currency. Strong growth of 13.0% in services revenues drove an improvement in
the gross margin and this, when combined with tight cost management, resulted
in operating profit growth of 25.4%. The Group operating margin grew to 4.9%,
an excellent increase on FY2008's 4.0% operating margin. A further highlight
of the results is good working capital management and strong cash generation,
which resulted in a closing cash balance of $600 million.

Dimension Data Group CEO, Brett Dawson said: "The results are testament
to further success in the execution of our 'Profitable Growth' strategy which
we embarked on in 2005. Since then we have grown revenues ahead of the
market, achieving a four year compound annual growth rate of 12.3%. Improved
gross margins and careful management of our cost base has driven operating
leverage with the Group operating margin widening to 4.9% from to 2.1% in
FY2005. Our operating profit has more than tripled to $194.4 million and over
the past five years have generated over a $1 billion in cash from
operations."

A key feature of this year's results is the excellent growth in services
revenues. This was driven primarily by 19.3% growth in managed services in
the Group's Systems Integration (SI) business and by revenue growth of 27.9%
in Internet Solutions. Professional services revenues within SI, which tend
to be more closely correlated with product revenues, increased 2.3%. Growth
in services revenues offset a decline of 7.5% in product revenues, a
commendable achievement in a tough market where demand was impacted by sharp
cuts in capital expenditure in several of our traditional client segments.

The effective tax rate, excluding exceptional items, was 26.7% (2008:
25.9%). The Group recorded a $11.0 million exceptional tax credit (and a $1.5
million exceptional operating expense) flowing from the restructuring of the
funding facility associated with the Campus land and buildings in South
Africa.

Earnings per share before exceptional items were 7.6 cents, compared to
7.4 cents last year.

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    Hilary King
    Global PR and Analyst Relations Manager
    Dimension Data
    Office : +27-11-575-6728
    email : hilary.king(at)za.didata.com

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Hilary King: Global PR and Analyst Relations Manager, Dimension Data, Office : +27-11-575-6728, email : hilary.king(at)za.didata.com