Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
05 September 2005


Anglo American plc
(the "Company")

The Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (the "Trust") is a charitable trust formed
in 1958 for the benefit of any institution for the advancement of science or art
or of an educational, charitable or ecclesiastical nature, the benefits whereof
are in the interests of the public.

The following notifications are made on behalf of Mr A J Trahar, Mr R M Godsell
and Mr N F Oppenheimer pursuant to Section 324(2) of the Companies Act 1985.

The Company was notified on 2 September 2005, pursuant to Section 324(2) of the
Act, of the sale of the following non-beneficial interests held through the
Trust.

As a result of the sale by the Trust of 100,000 ordinary shares of US$0.50 each
in the Company ("Shares") undertaken on 2 September 2005, Mr Trahar is deemed to
have disposed of a non-beneficial interest in 100,000 Shares as a result of his
wife being a trustee of the Trust. Such Shares were sold by the Trust at Rand
163.382 per Share.

Similarly, as a result of the sale described above, Messrs Godsell and
Oppenheimer are also deemed to have disposed of a non-beneficial interest in
100,000 Shares as a result of being trustees of the Trust.

Following the sale described above Messrs Godsell, Oppenheimer and Trahar are
deemed to have a non-beneficial interest in 367,778 Shares held by the Trust.

None of Messrs Godsell, Oppenheimer or Trahar is a beneficiary of the Trust.

G A Wilkinson
Deputy Secretary
5 September 2005


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