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EXHIBIT 12.1

SARBANES-OXLEY CEO CERTIFICATION

I, Philip Kotze,  Chief Executive Officer of Anooraq
Resources Corporation, certify that:

|1. | I have reviewed this Annual Report on Form 20-F of
      Anooraq Resources Corporation;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
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|2. | Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any
      untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
      necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under
      which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period
      covered by this report;                                      
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|3. | Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and
      other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all
      material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash
      flows of the Company as of, and for, the periods presented in this
      report;                                                            
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|4. | The
        Company’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing
        and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange
        Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal controls over financial
        reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for
        the Company and have:

| | (a) | Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or
        caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our
        supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the Company,
        including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others
        within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report
        is being prepared;
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| | (b) | Designed such internal control over financial reporting,
        or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed
        under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability
        of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for
        external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;            
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| | (c) | Evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure
        controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about
        the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the
        end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation;                                                                                                               
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| | (d) | Disclosed in this report any change in the Company's internal control
      over financial reporting that occurred during the period covered by the
      annual report that has materially affected, or is reasonably
      likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial
      reporting.                                                                                           

|5. | The Companys other certifying officer(s) and I have
      disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of the internal control
      over financial reporting, to the Companys auditors and the audit
      committee of Companys board of directors (or persons performing the
      equivalent functions):
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| | (a) | All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in
      the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
      are reasonably likely to adversely affect the Companys ability to record,
      process, summarize and report financial information; and
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| | (b) | Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves
      management or other employees who have a significant role in the Companys
      internal control over financial reporting.                                                                                                     

|Date:  | September
      30, 2008 | 
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|       | /s/ Philip Kotze         | 
|By:    | Philip Kotze             | 
|Title: | Chief Executive Officer  | 

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