Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
03 January 2003


"Notification of Directors' Interests pursuant to section 324(2) of the
Companies Act 1985.


Under the terms of the Deferred Bonus Plan, certain employees and the executive
directors ("Participants") receive a bonus in the form of the Company's ordinary
shares of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares") and, subject to the Participants'
continued employment by the Company until three years after the conditional
grant date, the Participants receive an equal number of additional free ordinary
shares ("matching shares").

The executive directors of the Company, Messrs. Trahar, Davison, Lea and Nairn,
became automatically entitled to 5,116, 2,112, 3,729 and 1,140 matching shares
respectively for no consideration on satisfaction of the three year employment
condition on 1 January 2003.  The transfer of these ordinary shares from the
Company's employee share trust will cause the number of ordinary shares held by
the employee share trust, in which the executive directors along with all the
group employees are treated as interested, to be reduced by 12,097.


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