Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
7 June 2002


                               ANGLO AMERICAN PLC


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 57,114,708 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

                     Date of Transfer               Number of Ordinary Shares

                        31 May 2002                        31,900
                       05 June 2002                         7,527
                       06 June 2002                         5,700
                       07 June 2002                         5,052


The Company was advised of these transactions on 07 June 2002.

The following directors together with all employees are potential beneficiaries
of the Trust although the directors were not connected with the transactions
that took place on the abovementioned dates.

B E Davison

A W Lea

W A Nairn

J Ogilvie Thompson

A J Trahar



 A J Guthrie

Companies Secretary

07 June 2002



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