The spe­cial meet­ing to elect a new board for First Cit­i­zens Group Fi­nan­cial Hold­ings will be held on Oc­to­ber 8 at the Lord Kitch­en­er (Ald­wyn Roberts) Au­di­to­ri­um at the Na­tion­al Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts at 10am, ac­cord­ing to a no­tice to the bank's share­hold­ers pub­lished in to­day's news­pa­pers.

The no­tice in­di­cat­ed that meet­ing was req­ui­si­tioned on Sep­tem­ber 18. The req­ui­si­tion would have come from Cor­po­ra­tion Sole, through First Cit­i­zens Hold­ings Ltd, the com­pa­ny es­tab­lished by the State to hold­ing its 60.11 per cent stake in the bank.

That share­hold­ing al­lows the State to vote its pre­ferred slate of di­rec­tors to sit on the First Cit­i­zens board.