Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
06 January 2004


                       Anglo American plc (the "Company")
                        Deferred Bonus Plan Disclosures

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

Under the terms of the Company's 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") together with an
award of an equal number of free ordinary shares ("matching shares") which is
conditional on the Participants' continued employment with participating
companies until the third anniversary of the award date.

On 5 January 2004, the Company was notified by the trustee of the Company's
employee benefit trust on behalf of the following directors, Messrs Trahar,
Davison, Lea and Nairn, that they had respectively become automatically entitled
to 9,658; 1,814; 6,238; 1,601 matching shares (net amount of shares after tax
and social security charges - see below) for no consideration on satisfaction of
the three year employment condition on 1 January 2004.

On 22 December 2003, it was agreed with Messrs Trahar, Davison, Lea and Nairn
that their entitlements to matching shares due to be released on 1 January 2004
would be reduced for no consideration by the respective number of matching
shares required to pay income tax and social security charges on the release of
the matching shares. The number of shares required to pay such tax and charges
were: Mr A J Trahar - 4,046; Mr B E Davison - 990; Mr A W Lea - 4,334 and Mr W A
Nairn - 603.

The current shareholdings of those directors are now as follows:

Mr A J Trahar               161,752

Mr B E Davison              28,204

Mr A W Lea                  91,015

Mr W A Nairn                37,281

The release of matching shares to Participants on 1 January 2004 caused 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 69,592 shares.


6 January 2004

N Jordan - Secretary






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