Director Shareholding

Anglo American PLC
10 March 2005


                       ANGLO AMERICAN PLC (the "Company")


DIRECTORS' INTERESTS - BONUS SHARE PLAN ("BSP")

The Company announces that on 10 March 2005, the Company was advised that on 8
March 2005, the following awards of ordinary shares of US$0.50 in the capital of
the Company ("Shares") were made for nil consideration pursuant to the BSP . The
awards were based on a share price of £12.96 per Share, being the mid-market
price per Share on the pricing date of 25 February 2005. In accordance with the
determination of the Remuneration Committee, and in accordance with the rules of
the BSP, the Company awarded, on Tuesday 8 March 2005, the number of Shares
under the BSP specified below, conditional on continued employment, subject to
the rules of the BSP, until 31 December 2007:

Director                                             Shares
Mr B E Davison                                                          15,013
Mr A W Lea                                                              16,527
Mr A J Trahar                                                           46,354


In accordance with the determination of the Remuneration Committee, and in
accordance with the rules of the BSP, the Company also awarded, on Tuesday 8
March 2005, the number of enhancement Shares specified below, conditional upon
the attainment of a stretching earnings per share performance condition during a
three-year performance period ending on 31 December 2007:

Director                                             Shares
Mr B E Davison                                                          11,259
Mr A W Lea                                                              12,395
Mr A J Trahar                                                           34,765


DIRECTORS' SHARE INTERESTS

The following table provides details of all the directors' current interests
(excluding share options) in the ordinary shares of the Company following the
above transactions:
                                                                                                As at 10 March
                                                                                                        2005
                                                                      ----------------------------------------
                                                                                                           Non
               Beneficial                                                        Conditional      beneficial(6)
                           ------------------------------------------------------------------
                                       Deferred bonus
                                      share match(2)
                                                                 BSP Bonus  BSP Enhancement
                                                                  Shares(4)       Shares(5)

                             SIP(1)                     LTIP(3)
------------     --------    -----          -------    -------      -------       ---------         --------
A J Trahar(6)     108,482      357           32,219    295,286       95,924          71,943          767,778
B E Davison        35,311        -            5,267    129,820       27,718          20,788                -
A W Lea(7)         77,473      357           12,803    142,164       33,441          25,081                -
Sir Mark           19,814        -                -          -            -               -                -
Moody-Stuart (8)
D J Challen         2,000        -                -          -            -               -                -
Dr C E Fay          5,853        -                -          -            -               -                -
R M Godsell(6)         92        -                -          -            -               -          767,778
G Lindahl          11,735        -                -          -            -               -                -
R J Margetts(9)     9,259        -                -          -            -               -                -
Dr M S B Marques      752        -                -          -            -               -                -
N F            59,126,043        -                -          -            -               -          767,778
Oppenheimer
(6)(10)
F T M  Phaswana     9,103        -                -          -            -               -                -
Sir David          11,392        -                -          -            -               -                -
Scholey
Prof K A L M          500        -                -          -            -               -                -
Van Miert        
------------     --------   ------          -------    -------      -------       ---------         --------


(1)          The award of these Shares is conditional upon the participant's
continued employment by the Group until three years after the conditional grant
date.

(2)          The award of these Shares is conditional upon the participant's
continued employment by the Group until three years after the grant date.

(3)           The award of Shares under the LTIP is conditional upon the
satisfaction of performance conditions.

(4)          The award of Bonus Shares under the BSP is conditional upon the
participant's continued employment by the Group until three years after the
conditional grant date.

(5)          The award of Enhancement Shares under the BSP is conditional upon
the satisfaction of performance conditions as well as continued employment.

(6)           Messrs Godsell and Oppenheimer are deemed to be interested in The
Ernest Oppenheimer Memorial Trust's holding of 767,778 shares of virtue of being
Trustees and Mr A J Trahar is also deemed to be interested by virtue of his wife
being a Trustee. None of them is a beneficiary of the Trust.

(7)          A W Lea's beneficial interest includes 200 Shares arising as a
result of his son's interest in these Shares.

(8)          Sir Mark Moody-Stuart's beneficial interest includes 12,500 Shares
arising as a result of his interest in a family trust.

(9)          R J Margetts' beneficial interest in 9,259 Shares arises as a
result of his wife's interest in these Shares.

(10)         N F Oppenheimer's beneficial interest in 59,125,951 of these Shares
arises as a result of his interest in a discretionary trust which is treated as
interested in 52,250,206 Shares in which E Oppenheimer & Son Holdings Limited is
treated as interested and 6,870,745 Shares in which Central Holdings Limited is
treated as interested. The 6,870,745 Shares referred to above are Shares held by
Debswana Diamond Company (Pty) Limited, in which N F Oppenheimer and Central
Holdings Limited have no economic interest. His interest in 5,000 of these
Shares arises as a result of his wife's interest in a trust which has an
indirect economic interest in those Shares.



N Jordan

Company Secretary

10 March 2005






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