"financial institution"

means—

(a) any public company registered provisionally or finally as a deposit taking institution in terms of the Deposit-taking Institutions Act, 1990 (Act No. 94 of 1990);
(b) the Land and Agricultural Bank of South Africa;
(e) the Development Bank of Southern Africa;
(d) a mutual building society as defined in section 1(1) of the Mutual Building Societies Act, 1965 (Act No. 24 of 1965);
(e) an insurer registered in terms of the Insurance Act, 1943 (Act No. 27 of 1943), and carrying on any class of long-term insurance business, other than a funeral business, within the Republic;
(f)any company registered as a management company in terms of the Unit Trusts Control Act, 1981 (Act No. 54 of 1981), or any company or institution registered as a trustee in terms of that Act;