ACL213 - Credit Event Notice and Notice of Publicly Available Information ABSA BANK LIMITED (Incorporated in terms of the laws of the Republic of South Africa) (Company Registration No: 1986/004794/06) JSE Code: ACL213 ISIN No: ZAG000107657 CREDIT EVENT NOTICE AND NOTICE OF PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION ZAR 1,000,000,000 Series 2013-65 Portfolio Credit Linked Notes – ACL213 (the “Notes”) Reference is made to the Notes described above issued by Absa Bank Limited under its ZAR20,000,000,000 Credit-linked Note Programme. Capitalised terms used and not otherwise defined in this notice shall have the meanings given them in the Programme Memorandum and the Applicable Pricing Supplement of the Notes. Absa Bank Limited hereby gives notice that a Bankruptcy Credit Event under the Notes with respect to the Reference Entity, African Bank Limited as specified in the Reference Portfolio Annex attached as Annex 1 to the Applicable Pricing Supplement, occurred when the Minister of Finance placed Africa Bank Limited under curatorship with effect from 16:00, 10 August 2014. This notice also comprises our Notice of Publicly Available Information with respect to this Credit Event. The detail concerning the curatorship appointment described above has been published by the South Africa Reserve Bank, The Star and Business Day newspapers, which fulfils the requirement of Publicly Available Information under the Conditions to Settlement of the Notes. Nothing in this notice shall be construed as a waiver of any rights Absa Bank Limited may have with respect to the Notes. Debt Sponsor Absa Bank Limited (acting through its Corporate and Investment Banking division) Date: 12/08/2014 02:09:00 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.