REG-Anglogold Ld: Circ re specific authority to allot and issue shares

AngloGold Ashanti Limited

Registration number 1944/017354/06

(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa)

Circular to Shareholders

regarding

* the granting to and approval of a specific authority for AngloGold Ashanti
directors to allot and issue up to a maximum of 15,384,615 ordinary shares
of R0.25 each in the share capital of AngloGold Ashanti underlying the
AngloGold Ashanti ADSs issuable upon the conversion of the US$732,500,000
3.50 percent Convertible Bonds due 22 May, 2014 issued by AngloGold Ashanti
Holdings Finance plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AngloGold Ashanti.

and incorporating

* a notice of general meeting of shareholders; and

* a form of proxy (for use by certificated shareholders and dematerialised
shareholders with "own name" registration); or

* a CDI voting instruction form (for use by Australian holders of Chess
Depositary Interests); or

* a GhDS voting instruction form (for use by holders of Ghanaian Depositary
Shares).

Two copies of the above document have been submitted to the UK Listing
Authority and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing
Authority's Document Viewing Facility at:-

Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London
E14 5HS
Telephone 020 7066 1000

3 July 2009

The document can be viewed on the company's web site www.anglogoldashanti.com
or obtained in hard-copy format from the United Kingdom Secretaries, St James's
Corporate Services Limited, 6 St James's Place, London, SW1A 1NP.

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