Dividend Announcement- FSRIHI INVESTEC WARRANTS JSE SHARE CODE: FSRIHI JSE ISIN CODE: ZAE000167326 DECLARED DIVIDEND ANNOUNCEMENT ON FIRSTRAND LIMITED HOT ENHANCED DIVIDEND SECURITIES (HOT EDS) – (“FSRIHI”) The Directors of FirstRand Limited have declared a final cash dividend of 58 cents per ordinary share payable on Monday, 15 October 2012 to ordinary shareholders recorded in the books of the company at the close of business on Friday, 12 October 2012. In terms of the new Dividend Tax effective 1 April 2012, the following additional information is disclosed: 1) Local dividend tax rate is 15%; 2) STC credits utilised is 7.15566 cents per share; 3) net local dividend amount is 50.37335 cents per share for shareholders liable to pay the new Dividends Tax and 58 cents per share for shareholders exempt from paying the new Dividends Tax; and 4) the issued share capital of FirstRand Limited is as follows as at the declaration date; 5,637,941,689 ordinary shares and 45,000,000 variable rate, non-cumulative non-redeemable B preference shares. Accordingly, the warrant holders of FSRIHI will receive a FirstRand Limited dividend amount per ordinary share payable on Monday, 15 October 2012 in terms of the Cession clause incorporated in the Supplement between the holders and Investec Bank Limited. The last day to trade (“cum” the dividend) in order to participate in the dividend will be Friday, 05 October 2012. FSRIHI Enhanced Dividend Securities will commence trading “ex” the dividend from the commencement of business on Monday, 08 October 2012 and the record date will be Friday, 12 October 2012. Copies of the offering circular may be obtained from: Investec Bank Limited 100 Grayston Drive Sandown Sandton 2196 For further information contact: Investec Warrants Tel.: 0860 103 343 E-mail: warrants@investec.co.za Internet: www.investec.com Sponsor Investec Securities Limited Member of the JSE Registration number. 1972/008905/06) Date: 11/09/2012 04:21:00 Produced by the JSE SENS Department. The SENS service is an information dissemination service administered by the JSE Limited ('JSE'). The JSE does not, whether expressly, tacitly or implicitly, represent, warrant or in any way guarantee the truth, accuracy or completeness of the information published on SENS. The JSE, their officers, employees and agents accept no liability for (or in respect of) any direct, indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind or nature, howsoever arising, from the use of SENS or the use of, or reliance on, information disseminated through SENS.