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Disposal Group Ownership Interest Disposed, Free-Carry Allocation Percentage

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Number Of Other Equity Instruments Awarded Per Beneficiary In Share-Based Payment Arrangement

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Number of Shares Authorized 1

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Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Shares Issued in Period1

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Line items represent concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes of the table.

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The number of other equity instruments (ie other than share options) outstanding in a share-based payment arrangement.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Name IFRS
-Number 2
-IssueDate 2018-01-01
-Paragraph 45
-URI http://eifrs.ifrs.org/eifrs/XBRL?type=IFRS&num=2&date=2018-03-01&anchor=para_45&doctype=Standard
-URIDate 2018-03-16

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Share-Based Payments - Narrative (Details) R / shares in Units, R in Millions				12 Months Ended	103 Months Ended
	Jan. 15, 2019 shares	Jun. 25, 2013 ZAR (R)	Mar. 20, 2013	Jun. 30, 2019 shares R / shares	Jun. 30, 2019 shares	Jun. 30, 2018 shares	Jun. 30, 2017 shares
Phoenix
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Disposal of operations, percent			30.00%
Disposal group ownership interest disposed, free-carry allocation percentage			5.00%
Fair value expensed \| R		R 23
Sisonke ESOP
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Spot share price (in SA rand per share) \| R / shares				R 28.29
2006 share plan
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Number of share option awards outstanding (in shares)				27,720,640	27,720,640
Ordinary shares
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Number of shares authorised				60,011,669	60,011,669
Number of shares issued					37,546,904
Share appreciation rights \| 2006 share plan
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Number of share option awards outstanding (in shares)				6,713,044	6,713,044	9,847,860	12,476,697
Participation units \| Sisonke ESOP
Disclosure of terms and conditions of share-based payment arrangement [line items]
Number of share option awards outstanding (in shares)				6,819,025	6,819,025	0	0
Vesting period (in years)	3 years
Number of participation units awarded to each beneficiary under scheme	225