ANGLO AMERICAN PLC - Anglo American appoints Hixonia Nyasulu and Nonkululeko Nyembezi to the Board

Anglo American appoints Hixonia Nyasulu and Nonkululeko Nyembezi to the Board

Anglo American plc (the “Company”)
Registered office: 20 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AN
Registered number: 3564138 (incorporated in England and Wales)
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300S9XF92D1X8ME43
ISIN: GBOOB1XZS820
JSE Share Code: AGL
NSX Share Code: ANM

NEWS RELEASE

24 July 2019

Anglo American appoints Hixonia Nyasulu and Nonkululeko Nyembezi to the Board

Anglo American plc (“Anglo American”) announces that Hixonia Nyasulu will join the Board as a
non-executive director, with effect from 1 November 2019, and that Nonkululeko Nyembezi will
join the Board as a non-executive director, with effect from 1 January 2020.

Stuart Chambers, Chairman of Anglo American, said: “Hixonia Nyasulu has exceptional and
highly relevant global board experience drawn from the natural resources, financial services and
consumer industries, and I look forward to welcoming her to Anglo American’s Board. Her
entrepreneurial spirit and passion for education and economic development will add richness to
our board discussions.

“Equally, Nonkululeko Nyembezi’s engineering background and extensive experience spanning
mining, steel, financial services and technology in South African and global organisations offers
us great breadth of insights, both technical and strategic. We will continue to ensure that the non-
executive directors on the Board represent the full breadth of Anglo American’s business.”

Nolitha Fakude, a non-executive director of Anglo American since 2017, will step down from the
Board on 31 August 2019 to take up an executive role for Anglo American as Chairman of Anglo
American’s management board in South Africa, with effect from 1 September 2019.

Stuart Chambers concluded: “We thank Nolitha Fakude for her contribution as a non-executive
director over the last two years and wish her well in her new role on the global executive team.
This is an important strategic role that draws together Anglo American’s interests at a national
level as the largest mining company in South Africa and its most significant mining investor.”

Upon stepping down from the Board, Nolitha Fakude will also step down from the Audit,
Nomination and Sustainability Committees. There are no additional details to disclose under
Listing Rule 9.6.13R in respect of the appointments of Hixonia Nyasulu and Nonkululeko
Nyembezi.

Notes to editors:

Following the changes set out above, the Anglo American plc Board of Directors will comprise:

Chairman             Executive directors                          Non-executive directors
Stuart Chambers      Mark Cutifani – chief executive              Byron Grote (Senior Independent Director)
                     Stephen Pearce – finance director            Ian Ashby
                     Tony O’Neill – technical director            Marcelo Bastos
                                                                  Hixonia Nyasulu
                                                                  Nonkululeko Nyembezi
                                                                  Mphu Ramatlapeng
                                                                  Jim Rutherford
                                                                  Anne Stevens

Hixonia Nyasulu, age 64, is the founder of Ayavuna Women’s Investments (Pty) Ltd, a women-
controlled investment vehicle focused on the health and education sectors, and the Senior
independent Director of Vivo Energy Plc, a London listed company behind the Shell and Engen
fuel brands in Africa. A highly experienced non-executive director, Hixonia has previously served
on the boards of Sasol, including five years as chairman, Nedbank, including as deputy chairman,
Unilever PLC, Unilever NV and Anglo American Platinum. She has also served as a member of
the South Africa advisory board of JPMorgan and on the board of the Development Bank of
Southern Africa. Before founding Ayavuna in 2004, she ran (for 20 years) T.H. Nyasulu &
Associates, a strategy, marketing and research company after starting her career at Unilever.
Hixonia was a founder member of the Advisory Group formed by the World Economic Forum to
set up a community of global chairmen. She has a BA in Social Work and an Honours Degree in
Psychology, both from the University of Zululand, South Africa.

Nonkululeko Nyembezi, age 59, is chairman of JSE Limited and Alexander Forbes Group. She
also serves as chief executive officer of Ichor Coal N.V., an international thermal coal mining
company. Ms Nyembezi has previously served as a non-executive director on the boards of Old
Mutual plc, Exxaro Resources, Universal Coal plc and Denel, and as CEO of ArcelorMittal South
Africa. In her earlier career, she was chief officer of M&A for the Vodacom group and chief
executive officer of Alliance Capital, the then local subsidiary of a New York-based global
investment management company. Nonkululeko has a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the
California Institute of Technology, USA, a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Manchester Institute of Science & Technology, UK, and an MBA from the Open University, UK.

Anglo American is a leading global mining company and our products are the essential
ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining
operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner,
more electrified world and that meet the fast growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s
developed and maturing economies. With our people at the heart of our business, we use
innovative practices and the latest technologies to discover new resources and mine, process,
move and market our products to our customers around the world – safely, responsibly and
sustainably.

As a responsible miner – of diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum group metals, iron
ore, coal and nickel – we are the custodians of what are precious natural resources. We work
together with our business partners and diverse stakeholders to unlock the sustainable value that
those resources represent for our shareholders, the communities and countries in which we
operate, and for society as a whole. Anglo American is re-imagining mining to improve people’s
lives.

www.angloamerican.com

For further information, please contact:

Media                                        Investors
UK                                           UK
James Wyatt-Tilby                            Paul Galloway
james.wyatt-tilby@angloamerican.com          paul.galloway@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8759                     Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8718

Marcelo Esquivel                             Robert Greenberg
marcelo.esquivel@angloamerican.com           robert.greenberg@angloamerican.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8891                     Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 2124

South Africa                                 Emma Waterworth
Pranill Ramchander                           emma.waterworth@angloamerican.com
pranill.ramchander@angloamerican.com         Tel: +44 (0)20 7968 8574
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2592

Sibusiso Tshabalala
sibusiso.tshabalala@angloamerican.com
Tel: +27 (0)11 638 2175

The Company has a primary listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange
and secondary listings on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, the Botswana Stock
Exchange, the Namibia Stock Exchange and the SIX Swiss Exchange.

Sponsor
RAND MERCHANT BANK (A division of FirstRand Bank Limited)

Date: 24/07/2019 09:00:00
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