Ordinary cash dividend declaration FirstRand Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) Registration number: 1966/010753/06 JSE Ordinary Share Code: FSR JSE Ordinary Share ISIN: ZAE000066304 JSE B Preference Share Code: FSRP JSE B Preference Share ISIN: ZAE000060141 NSX Ordinary Share Code: FST Income tax number: 9150201714 (FirstRand or the company) ORDINARY CASH DIVIDEND DECLARATION Notice is hereby given that the directors of FirstRand declare an interim ordinary cash dividend for the six month period ended 31 December 2014 in line with the salient dates outlined below. The dividend amount will be announced together with the interim results announcement, which is planned for release on the Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) of the JSE on Tuesday, 10 March 2015. The interim ordinary cash dividend will be declared from income reserves and the company will utilise secondary tax on companies’ credits amounting to 4.29048 cents per share. The salient dates for the interim ordinary dividend will be as follows: Event 2015 Finalisation date: ordinary dividend and interim results announcement on SENS Tuesday, 10 March Last day to trade cum-dividend Friday, 20 March Shares commence trading ex-dividend Monday, 23 March Record date Friday, 27 March Payment date Monday, 30 March Share certificates may not be dematerialised or rematerialised between Monday, 23 March 2015 and Friday, 27 March 2015, both days inclusive. Sandton 6 March 2015 Sponsor RAND MERCHANT BANK (a division of FirstRand Bank Limited) Date: 06/03/2015 08:30:00 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.