HARMONY GOLD MINING COMPANY LIMITED

Randfontein Office Park     P O Box 2, Randfontein, 1760    T +27 11 411 2000         NYSE trading symbol HMY

Cnr Main Reef Road and Ward     Johannesburg, South Africa        F +27 11 692 3879         JSE trading symbol HAR

Avenue, Randfontein, 1759                    Wwww.harmony.co.za

VIA EDGAR

                                            30 January 2024

United States Securities and Exchange Commission

Division of Corporation Finance

100 F Street, NE

Washington, D.C.

20549

For attention:    Steve Lo

Shannon Buskirk

John Coleman

RE:                 Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited

Form 20-F for Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2023

Filed October 31, 2023

File No. 001-31545

Comment Letter dated January 19, 2024

We are in receipt of your letter of January 19, 2024 to Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (the “Company”), asking that the Company respond to your inquiry within ten business days or inform you of when the Company will provide you a response. As the Company will require further time to gather the requested materials and formulate the requested response in coordination with its independent auditors and other advisors, the Company will be able to provide a response on or before March 7, 2024.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

/s/ Boipelo Lekubo

Boipelo Lekubo

cc:

Peter Steenkamp

Michelle Kriel

Shela Mohatla

John Basnage

Directors:    PT Motsepe* (Chairman), KT Nondumo* (Deputy Chairman), M Msimang*, PW Steenkamp (Chief Executive), BP Lekubo (Financial Director),

    HE Mashego (Executive Director), JL Wetton*, VP Pillay*, GR Sibiya*, PL Turner*, B Nqwababa*, M Prinsloo*

        *Non-Executive

Secretary:     SS Mohatla

Registration Number:     1950/038232/06