Gold mining giant takes his life, leaving him forever linked to massive fraud perpetrated by his son, Brett Kebble ONE of the South African gold mining giants of the 1990s, Roger Kebble, shot himself in Cape Town on Tuesday, bringing to an end the last true link the Kebble family had to mining.Forever linked to the massive fraud perpetrated by his son, Brett Kebble, at JCI and Randgold and Exploration, Kebble stepped out of active involvement in mining shortly after Brett was shot dead in his car in an assisted suicide in September 2005."If he wasn’t associated with Brett, Roger’s legacy would have been a lot less tarnished," said Bernard Swanepoel, who Kebble called in to head the fledgling Harmony Gold."Roger was very big in the gold mining space in those early days. He was ballsy, aggressive and when I looked for support in the boardroom he backed me," he said on Tuesday. "He was a catalyst, an initiator. There was a lot to admire back then."Others spoke less fondly of the outspo...
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