Accrued Interest on the FirstRand Gold Bond FirstRand Bank Limited (Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa) (Registration No. 1929/001225/06) Issuer code: FRD Alpha Code: FRK01 ISIN: ZAE000193454 (FRB/ the Issuer) Accrued Interest on the FirstRand Gold Bond FirstRand Bank Limited wishes to advise note holders that interest payable to investors at maturity of the FirstRand Gold Bond will be dependent on the ZAR value of the ounce interest as at redemption. As a result of fluctuations in the USD gold price and the Rand/Dollar exchange rate, the ZAR value of interest paid at maturity may not equal the sum of the ZAR interest announced annually via SENS. FirstRand further wishes to advise that interest is calculated in ounces of gold and as such for purposes of calculating the annual interest which has accrued on the note; the interest earned per ounce is converted to a ZAR amount at the end of February in each year. Interest accrued on the FRK01 bond for the period 12 August 2014 to 28 February 2015 has amounted to 0.00273973 ounces per unit, which yields an approximate rand interest value of ZAR 38.24 per ounce. *A rand gold price of ZAR 13 958.5280 per ounce has been applied.(As at London close of business on the last business day of February 4 August 2015 Debt Sponsor Rand Merchant Bank (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited) Date: 04/08/2015 09:45:00 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.