FIRSTRAND LIMITED - Dividend declaration of 320.25100 cents per variable rate non-cumulative,non-redeemable FirstRand B Preference share

Dividend declaration of 320.25100 cents per variable rate non-cumulative,non-redeemable FirstRand B Preference share

FirstRand Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)
Registration number: 1966/010753/06
B Preference share code: FSRP ISIN: ZAE000060141
Income tax number: 9150201714
(“FirstRand” or “the Company”)

DIVIDEND DECLARATION OF 320.25100 CENTS PER VARIABLE RATE NON-
CUMULATIVE, NON-REDEEMABLE FIRSTRAND B PREFERENCE SHARE,
TOTALLING R144 112 950

Shareholders are advised that the salient dates for the
eighteenth dividend declaration on the variable rate non-
cumulative, non-redeemable B preference shares in FirstRand
(“B preference shares”) for the period from 25 February 2013
to 26 August 2013 both days inclusive, in the amount of
320.25100 cents per B preference share, will be as follows:

Last day to trade                        Friday, 16 August 2013
Shares commence trading “ex” the B
preference share dividend from the
commencement of business on              Monday, 19 August 2013
Record date                              Friday, 23 August 2013
Payment date of the B preference share
dividend                                 Monday, 26 August 2013

B preference share certificates may not be dematerialised or
rematerialised between Monday, 19 August 2013 and Friday, 23
August 2013, both days inclusive.

In the event that there is a change to the prime rate between
the B preference share dividend declaration date (“the
dividend declaration date”) and the B preference share
dividend payment date (“the dividend payment date”), the
prevailing prime rate at the dividend declaration date will be
applied from the dividend declaration date to the dividend
payment date.

The Company has utilized secondary tax on companies’ credits
amounting to 244.38759 cents per B Preference share, the total
being R109 974 413.76.      As a consequence, dividends tax
amounting to 11.37951 cents per B Preference share will be
deducted from this preference dividend for all shareholders
who are subject to dividends withholding tax. The net dividend
will therefore be 308.87149 cents per B Preference share.

The issued share capital at the declaration date is
5 637 941 689 ordinary shares of one cent each and 45 000 000
B preference shares of one cent each.

Sandton
1 August 2013

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

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