TO THE MEMBERS OF TRENCOR LIMITED
REPORT ON THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
We have audited the group annual financial statements and the annual financial statements of Trencor Limited, which comprise the balance sheets at 31 December 2006, and the income statements, the statements of changes in equity and cash flow statements for the year then ended, and the notes to the financial statements, which include a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes, and the directors’ report.

DIRECTORS’ RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The company’s directors are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards and in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa. This responsibility includes: designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

AUDITOR’S RESPONSIBILITY
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing. Those standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

OPINION
In our opinion, these financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated and separate financial position of Trencor Limited at 31 December 2006, and its consolidated and separate financial performance and consolidated and separate cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards, and in the manner required by the Companies Act of South Africa.

EMPHASIS OF MATTER
Without qualifying our opinion, we draw attention to note 40 to the financial statements. This note provides an explanation of the circumstances that have made trading contracts between certain TrenStar Inc subsidiaries in the United Kingdom and their brewer customers uneconomic and, consequently, that these contracts may be terminated on the basis that the brewers will repurchase the keg fleets for amounts that will satisfy the related outstanding debt.

The note indicates that should the contracts be terminated on this basis, there is a possibility that the subsidiaries may have to bear some additional costs but, as a decision has still to be made in this regard, no provision for any loss or additional liability that may result is made in these financial statements. The note also indicates that these conditions result in the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt on the ability of these subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, and possibly TrenStar Inc, to continue as going concerns.