Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
20 December 2001



                              ANGLO AMERICAN PLC

Directors' Interests

Below are details of changes in directors' interests in the Ordinary Shares of
Anglo American plc (the 'Company').


On 19 December 2001, Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of the
Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan ('the Trust'), transferred 23,300
Ordinary Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American share
schemes leaving a balance of 58,996,844 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust.


The Company was advised of this transaction on 19 December 2001.


The Trust is a discretionary trust of which employees or former employees of
Anglo American plc and certain of its subsidiaries are potential
beneficiaries. The following directors are, therefore, interested in the
Ordinary Shares held in the Trust from time to time in the same way as other
employees or former employees of Anglo American plc and certain of its
subsidiaries:-


B E Davison

A W Lea

W A Nairn

J Ogilvie Thompson

A J Trahar




G A Wilkinson

Deputy Secretary


20 December 2001