Director/PDMR Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
01 April 2008



                       Anglo American plc ("the Company")
         Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AN
                           Registered number: 356413


Directors' Interests

The Company announces that on 1 April 2008 the following non-executive directors
of the Company ("NEDs") subscribed for ordinary shares of US$0.54945 in the
capital of the Company ("Shares") pursuant to a scheme compliant with Paragraph
17 of the Model Code as follows:


Director                            Number of Shares          Price £

Sir Rob Margetts                            252               29.564
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart                       453               29.564
F T M Phaswana                              441               29.564
P Woicke                                    397               29.564
M A Ramphele                                169               29.564

The Shares are being allotted by subscription of their after-tax directors' fees
in respect of their services to the Company during the period 1 January 2008 -
31 March 2008.

Applications have been made to the UK Listing Authority and the London Stock
Exchange for 1,712 ordinary shares of US$0.54945 each (the "Shares") to be
admitted to the Official List and to be admitted to trading respectively. In
addition, applications will be made to the Johannesburg, Swiss, Botswana and
Namibian Stock Exchanges for the Shares to be listed. The Shares will rank pari
passu with the existing issued ordinary shares of the Company.

Following the admission of these Shares the Company's issued share capital will
be 1,322,131,755 Shares (excluding those held in treasury).
The notification of these transactions is intended to satisfy the Company's
obligations under both the Companies Act 1985 and the Listing and Disclosure and
Transparency Rules.

Andy Hodges
Deputy Secretary
1 April 2008



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