Roger Brett Kebble was a South African mining magnate with close links to factions in the ruling political party, the African National Congress.
16 Facts About Brett Kebble
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Brett Kebble was shot dead on 27 September 2005 in Johannesburg.
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Brett Kebble's name was prominent in media coverage of Jackie Selebi's 2009 corruption trial.
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Brett Kebble was born in the mining town of Springs, on the East Rand.
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Brett Kebble matriculated from St Andrew's School, Bloemfontein, and earned a law degree from the University of Cape Town in 1986.
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In partnership with Mzi Khumalo as part of a black economic empowerment deal, Brett Kebble bought a controlling stake in JCI in 1995, though his and Khumalo's relationship later soured.
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The South African National Prosecuting Authority later said that, at the time of his death, Brett Kebble had been facing prosecution for fraud and contravention of the Stock Exchanges Control Act.
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Brett Kebble was reported to be a member of the African National Congress, and was certainly one of its major financiers, especially in the Western Cape.
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Brett Kebble was reportedly allied with the ANC Youth League and with Jacob Zuma, who, during the early 2000s, led an internal faction of the ANC which opposed President Thabo Mbeki.
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Brett Kebble was shot dead near a bridge over the M1 in Abbotsford, Johannesburg at around 9 pm on 27 September 2005, aged 41, while driving to a dinner engagement with his business associate, Sello Rasethaba.
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Brett Kebble was shot several times while in the driver's seat of his Mercedes.
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Forensic scientist Dr David Klatzow's investigation was the first to suggest that Brett Kebble had been shot by people known to him with a pistol using 'low-velocity' ammunition used by bodyguards and security operatives.
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Klatzow was first to suggest that Brett Kebble had committed assisted suicide.
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The Scorpions investigated accusations that Brett Kebble made millions of rands in disguised payments to the ANC and its affiliates.
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Smith, another of the hit men hired by Nassif, said that he had paid two men to shoot an Allan Gray fund manager, Stephen Mildenhall, in August 2005, shortly after Brett Kebble had been required to resign from his companies as a condition for a R500 million loan from Allan Gray.
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Brett Kebble explored the time trajectory from being selected as an artist for the 2004 Kebble Art Awards, to working on the awards in 2005, and ending with Brett Kebble's death in September 2005.