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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM 6-K
REPORT OF A FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER
PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For November 2009
Commission File Number 0-28800
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DRDGOLD Limited
EBSCO House 4
299 Pendoring Avenue
Blackheath
Randburg, South Africa, 2195
(Address of principal executive offices)
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form
20-F or Form 40-F.
Form 20-F              Form 40-F

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant by furnishing the information contained in this Form
is also thereby furnishing the information to the Commission pursuant to Rule 12g3-2(b) under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Yes              No

If ''Yes'' is marked, indicate below the file number assigned to the registrant in connection with Rule
12g3-2(b): N/A
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Attached to the Registrant Form 6-K filing for the month of November 2009, incorporated
by reference herein:
Exhibit
99.1 Release dated November 12, 2009, entitled “DRDGOLD ANNOUNCES GRANTING OF
JUDICIAL MANAGEMENT ORDER OVER BLYVOORUITZICHT GOLD MINING
COMPANY LIMITED (“BLYVOOR”); REPORTS IMPROVED MONTHLY PERFORMANCE
BY ALL OTHER OPERATIONS”.
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused
this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
DRDGOLD LIMITED

Date: November  12,  2009
By: /s/ Themba Gwebu
Name: Themba Gwebu
Title: Company Secretary
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Exhibit 99.1
DRDGOLD LIMITED
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
(Registration number 1895/000926/06)
JSE share code: DRD
ISIN: ZAE 000058723
Issuer code: DUSM
Nasdaq trading symbol: DROOY
(“DRDGOLD” or “the company”)

DRDGOLD ANNOUNCES GRANTING OF JUDICIAL MANAGEMENT ORDER OVER
BLYVOORUITZICHT GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED (“BLYVOOR”); REPORTS
IMPROVED MONTHLY PERFORMANCE BY ALL OTHER OPERATIONS

DRDGOLD announced today that the High Court of South Africa (“the Court”) has approved its
application for a judicial management order over the company’s 74%-owned Blyvoor operation.

On Monday this week, DRDGOLD announced its intention to seek the order to prevent the
liquidation of Blyvoor, which has been in a loss-making position since May 2009.

The Court granted a provisional judicial management order, in terms of the South African
Companies Act, on Tuesday.

DRDGOLD Chief Executive Officer, Niël Pretorius, said: “We are confident that judicial
management offers the best possible prospect of preventing Blyvoor’s liquidation and of restoring
the operation to financial health, all the while protecting the interests of all stakeholders of both
Blyvoor and DRDGOLD.

“Meanwhile, in line with DRDGOLD’s strategic shift towards lower risk, lower cost, high margin
production, the company’s surface retreatment operations – which are unaffected by developments
at Blyvoor - delivered an increase in gold production of more than 9% in October compared with
September, from 10,160 ounces to 11,092 ounces. These surface operations now deliver 66% of
DRDGOLD’s production and their proportion of the total is expected to continue to rise.

“While Blyvoor’s surface production was stable month on month, Crown and ERPM were
marginally higher with ErgoGold increasing by almost 38%.”
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Pretorius said that, in order to accelerate production build-up at ErgoGold, a further R8 million had
been approved to bring forward commissioning of a second pipeline feed from the Elsburg Tailings
Complex to the Brakpan plant.

The previously reported construction of a pilot plant to optimise the feed mix to the Brakpan plant
had been completed and was delivering encouraging results, Pretorius said.

The effect of the Blyvoor provisional judicial management order is that:

•   management of Blyvoor will become the responsibility of a provisional judicial manager to
    be appointed by the Master of the High Court within a few days’ time;

•   the provisional judicial manager will manage Blyvoor until 16 March 2010 when he/she will
    present to the Court a report on the performance of the business;

•   on, or prior to, 16 March 2010, interested and affected parties may approach the Court and
    provide reasons why the order should be dismissed or confirmed as final. If the order is
    confirmed, then a final judicial management order will be made by the Court;

•   if, at any stage prior to 16 March 2010, Blyvoor becomes profitable, any interested and
    affected party, including DRDGOLD, may bring an application before the Court to lift the
    provisional order.

The order shall be published in the government gazette and “The Star” newspaper.

Randburg

12  November  2009

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