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The Nationale Bank der Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek Beperk (National Bank of the South African Republic Limited) was registered in Pretoria in 1891 and opened for business on 5 April of the same year. After the conclusion of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1902, the name of this bank was changed to the National Bank of South Africa Limited.
The FirstRand group's history traces back to the 1970s as an investment bank.The group as currently was established on 1 April 1998, through a merger of the financial services interests of Anglo American Corporation of South Africa Limited (now Anglo American plc) and RMB Holdings (RMBH) in order to achieve the objective of a unified financial services grouping.
The bank contended successfully that this constituted an arbitrary deprivation of its property in violation of the property rights protected by section 25(1) of the Constitution of South Africa. In evaluating this argument, Ackermann set out a test for determining whether deprivation of property has taken place, [ 2 ] though it is debatable to ...
In April 1998, RMH entered into an agreement with Anglo American Corporation of South Africa (now Anglo American plc) to merge their financial services into a unified group. [11] This merger gave rise to First Rand and was listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on May 25, 1998, with Anglo American and RMH owning 20.43% and 25.03% of the ...
In 2004, the National Bank House was purchased from First Rand (or First National Bank) by Urban Ocean Property Developers (PTY)LTD. This privately owned company took a long term view on the history of Johannesburg inner city as the financial capital of the African continent (or the "City of Gold"), and undertook to start a rejuvenation process ...
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South African Breweries (officially The South African Breweries Limited, informally SAB) is a major brewery headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a wholly owned subsidiary of SABMiller until its interests were sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev on 10 October 2016. [2]
First Rand is listed as a "locally controlled bank" by the South African Reserve Bank, the national banking regulator. [10] As of May 2012 [update] , the group had total assets valued at US$90.3+ billion (ZAR:698 billion) (2011) [ 11 ] with subsidiaries in seven sub-Saharan countries and in Australia and India .