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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-06-151723
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	CORRESP
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20060724

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			DRDGOLD LTD
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001023512
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	GOLD & SILVER ORES [1040]
		IRS NUMBER:				000000000
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0630

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		CORRESP

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		45 EMPIRE ROAD
		STREET 2:		PARKTOWN
		CITY:			JOHANNESBURG
		STATE:			T3
		ZIP:			2193
		BUSINESS PHONE:		27113817800

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		PO BOX 390
		STREET 2:		MARAISBURG
		CITY:			JOHANNESBURG
		STATE:			T3
		ZIP:			1700

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	DURBAN ROODEPOORT DEEP LTD
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19960924
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">July&nbsp;24, 2006 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2"><I>Via EDGAR and Hand Delivery </I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities and Exchange Commission </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Division of Corporation Finance </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">100 F Street, N.E. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Washington, D.C. 20549-7010 </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Attention: Mellissa Campbell Duru </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="5%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>RE:</B></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>DRDGOLD Limited</B> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:13%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Application for Qualification of
Trust Indenture on Form T-3 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:13%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Filed June&nbsp;16, 2006 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:13%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">File No.&nbsp;22-28811 (the &#147;Application&#148;) </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dear Mrs.&nbsp;Duru: </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:8%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">On behalf of DRDGOLD Limited (the &#147;Company&#148;), we are writing to respond to the Staff&#146;s comments set forth in your letter, dated
July&nbsp;14, 2006 (the &#147;Comment Letter&#148;), with respect to the above referenced filing of the Company. The number of responses and headings set forth below correspond to the numbered comments and headings in the Comment Letter.
Additionally, the text of each of the numbered comments in the Comment Letter has been duplicated in italics and precedes each of the Company&#146;s responses. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:18px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Comment&nbsp;1:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Consistent with the requirements of Form T-3, ensure that you include updated disclosure with your next amendment. In this regard, we note disclosure that will need to be updated pursuant
to Items 5 and 7 of Form T-3 and the revisions that will need to be made to specifically incorporate the revised Offering Memorandum dated June 30, 2006 that was filed as an exhibit to the Form TO-I/A in June 30, 2006.</I></FONT></TD></TR>
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities and Exchange Commission </FONT></P> <P
STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">July&nbsp;24, 2006 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Page 2 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:12px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In response to the Staff&#146;s comment the Company has updated the disclosure in Items 4, 5 and 7 of the Application and has incorporated by reference the Amended and Restated Offering
Memorandum, dated June&nbsp;30, 2006.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>Item&nbsp;3. Affiliations, page 3</U></B></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Comment&nbsp;2:</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>We refer you to Instruction 3 to Item 3 of Form T-3. Please revise your disclosure in this section to clearly delineate the relationship of the listed parties to the applicant, inclusive of
the amount of ownership the applicant has in each entity. The current presentation is not clear.</I></FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In response to the Staff&#146;s comment the Company has revised the disclosure in Item 3 by inserting a diagram as Annex A to the Application presenting the affiliates of the Company, the
respective percentages of voting securities held by the Company in such affiliates, and the relationship of each affiliate to the Company and the other affiliates of the Company.</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>Closing Comments</U></B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="text-indent:2.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Contemporaneous with this filing the Company is providing a statement acknowledging that:</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.60em; text-indent:-1.60em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;should the Commission or the Staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, declare the
Application effective, it does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the Application;</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.60em; text-indent:-1.60em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the action of the Commission or the Staff, acting pursuant to delegated authority, in
declaring the Application effective, does not relieve the Company from its full responsibility for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the Application; and</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="top" COLSPAN="3"> <P STYLE="margin-left:3.60em; text-indent:-1.60em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&#149;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;the Company may not assert this action as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the
Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States.</FONT></P></TD></TR>
</TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">* * * * * </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:8%"><FONT
FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Please send a copy of any additional correspondence to the undersigned at 40 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 5DS, United Kingdom, facsimile 011-44-20-7072-7171. If you would like to discuss any aspect of the
Company&#146;s response, please call me on </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT SIZE="1">&nbsp;</FONT></P>
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STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">July&nbsp;24, 2006 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman"
SIZE="2">Page 3 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">011-44-20-7519-7171, or in my absence, my colleague Maria Protopapa, on 011-44-20-7519-7072. </FONT></P> <P
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Richard A. Ely</B></FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="text-indent:2.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities and Exchange Commission, Division of Corporation Finance:</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:4.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">H. Roger Schwall, Assistant Director</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"> <P STYLE="margin-left:4.00em"><FONT FACE="Times New Roman" SIZE="2">John Sayers, Chief Financial Officer</FONT></P></TD></TR>
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