The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited-Credit Event Announcement in respect ofCLN236,CLN246,CLN247,CLN249,CLN270 The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited THE STANDARD BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED (REGISTRATION NUMBER 1962/000738/06) – Credit Event Announcement in respect of CLN236, CLN246, CLN247, CLN249 and CLN270. NOTICE IS GIVEN TO ALL HOLDERS OF CLN236 (ISIN ZAG000092818), CLN246 (ZAG000093543), CLN247 (ISIN ZAG000093568), CLN249 (ISIN ZAG000093832) and CLN270 (ISIN ZAG000095464) Listed Notes issued in terms of The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited’s Structured Note Programme (formerly the Credit Linked Note Programme) dated 1 February 2012 (the “Notes”). Capitalised terms used and not otherwise defined in this announcement have the meaning given to them in the Pricing Supplements of the Notes, as read with the Programme Memorandum. Notice is hereby given that the Issuer has received notice from the Calculation Agent that a Bankruptcy Credit Event has occurred in respect of African Bank Limited, the Reference Entity under each of the Notes, following the appointment of a curator to the bank in terms of Section 69 of the Banks Act 94 of 1990 on 10 August 2014. A copy of the Credit Event Notice and Notice of Publicly Available Information confirming the occurrence of the events described above will be made available to Noteholders on request. Dated 13 August 2014 Sponsor – The Standard Bank of South Africa Limited Further information on the Note issued please contact: Johann Erasmus SBSA (Sponsor) 011 415 4100 Email: johann.erasmus@standardbank.co.za Date: 13/08/2014 12:15:00 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.