Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
08 April 2005



                               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 52,749,248 Ordinary Shares held by the Trust:

       Date of Transfer                    Number of Ordinary Shares
       ------------------                  ---------------------------
        04 April 2005                              4,000
        05 April 2005                             56,277
        06 April 2005                             32,500
        07 April 2005                             26,497
        08 April 2005                             33,000


The Company was advised of these transactions on 08 April 2005.
The following directors, together with all employees, are potential
beneficiaries of the Trust, and are therefore deemed to be technically
interested, but the directors were not connected with the transactions that took
place on the abovementioned dates.

                                   B E Davison

                                   A W Lea

                                   A J Trahar

N Jordan
Secretary
08 April 2005






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