Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
08 May 2003

                               Anglo American plc
                                (the "Company")


Anglo American Share Incentive Plan - SIP

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

In terms of the SIP scheme, operated through Halifax plc, employees are able to
subscribe for the Company's ordinary shares of US$0.50 each ("ordinary shares")
and the Company matches the ordinary shares subscribed on a one-for-one basis
("matching shares").

The matching shares are transferred from the nominee of the Company's Employee
Share Scheme Trustees, the Butterfield Trust, to the SIP Trust operated by the
Halifax and a total of 19,846 ordinary shares were transferred today.  The
undermentioned executive directors of the Company, together with some 2,400
employees, are potential beneficiaries and are therefore, deemed to be
interested in those ordinary shares.

The total number of ordinary shares acquired by each of these executive
directors under the SIP Scheme, subscribed for by them and matched by the
Company on 08 May 2003, was as follows:

A J Trahar                       28              ordinary shares
A W Lea                          28              ordinary shares
W A Nairn                        28              ordinary shares

Their total interests in the ordinary shares are now as follows:-

A J Trahar  151,936       ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
                          basis in 70,814 shares)

A W Lea    84,619         ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
                          basis in 33,091 shares)

W A Nairn 35,522          ordinary shares (including interests on a conditional
                          basis in 16,241 shares)


N Jordan
Company Secretary
08 May 2003


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