Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
21 April 2006


                       ANGLO AMERICAN plc (the "Company")

Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan

The Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of the Anglo American
Employee Share Ownership Plan (the "Trust"), transferred the following Ordinary
Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American share schemes
leaving a balance of 26,641,695 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        18 April 2006                                102,535
        19 April 2006                                124,069
        20 April 2006                                202,489
        21 April 2006                                 96,536

The Company was advised of these transactions on 21 April 2006.

The following executive directors and PDMRs, together with all employees, are
potential beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested but, save as explained in the footnotes below, were not connected
with the transactions that took place on the abovementioned dates.

Directors                           PDMRs
-----------                         -------

D A Hathorn                         A E Redman
                                   
R Medori                            R J King
                                    
S R Thompson                        P L Zim
                                    
A J Trahar                          P M Baum
                                    
                                    R Havenstein
                                    
                                    R M Godsell
                                    
                                    R S Robertson(1)
                                    
                                    P Smith
                                    
                                    J N Wallington
                                    

(1) Mr Robertson (a PDMR of the Company) was connected with transactions that
took place on 18 & 20 April 2006 in respect of 68,323 Ordinary Shares, which
were the subject of separate announcements.

N Jordan
Company Secretary
21 April 2006



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