Roger Ainsley Ralph Kebble (9 November 1939 – 24 August 2015) was a South African mining magnate.
[1] After matriculating at St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein, he began his career as an underground miner.
[1] He left the mine at the level of general manager and started his own mine contracting company with around R10,000 borrowed from his mother; in the 1980s, he sold the company to Gencor and took early retirement in Cape Town.
[1][2] He became chairman of DRD, although he was subsequently sidelined in a public feud with Mercury's Mark Wellesley-Wood.
[1][8] Suffering from depression,[1] he committed suicide by gunshot on 24 August 2015; his body was found in his Mercedes-Benz in suburban Bishopscourt, Cape Town.