RNS Number:7217L
SABMiller PLC
30 May 2003




                         SABMiller plc (the "Company")


                              Share Award Scheme



The following directors notified the Company on the 28 May 2003 that they had
been granted on the 23 May 2003, by the Trustee of the Company's Employment
Benefit Trust, awards of free restricted shares under the Company's Performance
Share Award Scheme to acquire the numbers of ordinary shares in the Company set
out below on satisfaction of the performance condition.




Director            Number of Ordinary Shares    Total number of ordinary shares
                    granted on 23 May 2003       held under Award
                                                 Scheme as at 23 May 2003

E.A.G. Mackay               163,860                      662,902

M.I. Wyman                   76,669                      347,925








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