No Change Statement And Notice Of Annual General Meeting FirstRand Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration number: 1966/010753/06) ISIN: ZAE 000066304 Share Code: (JSE): FSR Share Code: (NSX): FST (“FSR”) NO CHANGE STATEMENT AND NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING No change statement Shareholders are advised that the annual integrated report incorporating the report of the directors, the audited financial statements for the year ending 30 June 2012 and the audit committee report will be distributed to shareholders on or about Friday, 26 October 2012 and contain no modifications to the audited results which were published on SENS on 11 September 2012. Notice of the annual general meeting Notice is hereby given that the sixteenth annual general meeting of FSR shareholders will be held at Auditorium, FNB Conference and Learning Centre, 114 Grayston Drive, Sandton on Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 09h00 to transact the business as stated in the annual general meeting notice which will be mailed together with the annual integrated report. Salient dates Record date to determine which shareholders Friday, are entitled to receive the notice of annual 19 October 2012 general meeting Last day to trade in order to be eligible to Friday, attend and vote at the annual general meeting 16 November 2012 Record date to determine which shareholders Friday, are entitled to attend and vote at the annual 23 November 2012 general meeting Forms of proxy for the annual general meeting Tuesday*, to be lodged by 09h00* on 27 November 2012 *any proxies not lodged by this time must be handed to the chairperson of the annual general meeting immediately prior to the annual general meeting. The annual integrated report and notice of the annual general meeting will also be published on the FSR website, www.firstrand.co.za, filed in the Investor Centre folder, on Friday, 26 October 2012. Sandton 24 October 2012 Sponsor RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited) Date: 24/10/2012 02:50:00 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.