Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
4 January 2002


                              ANGLO AMERICAN PLC


Directors' Interests

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

On 2 and 3 January 2002, Butterfield Trust (Guernsey) Limited, as trustee of
the Anglo American Employee Share Ownership Plan ('the Trust'), transferred
19,700 Ordinary Shares in the Company to participants of the Anglo American
share schemes leaving a balance of 58,904,594 Ordinary Shares held by the
Trust.

The Company was advised of this transaction on 3 January 2002.

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

4 January 2002