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JOHANNESBURG (Dow Jones) -- Roger Kebble, the deputy
chairman and executive director of South African gold
miner Durban Roodepoort Deep Ltd. (DROOY), has been
suspended from his executive director position, a
company source said Monday.

The suspension means he will cease all executive functions,
though he will remain as an ordinary director and will be free
to carry out these duties, the source said.

The move is related to Kebble's role in a transaction to buy
the Rawas gold project in Indonesia , which ceased
operations in March 2000, the source said.

Earlier, DRD released a statement saying that an
investigation into the Rawas transaction and the issue
of 8.25 million DRD shares in July and October 1999 to
creditors was under way.

It said that all of those shares had been allotted and
issued invalidly.

DRD said: quot;Since the evidence referred to above came
to light, the company has been investigating the whole
transaction with the view to pursuing any rights of recovery
it might have against the parties responsible for entering
into the transaction.quot;

-By Andi Spicer, Dow Jones Newswires; #43;27 11 783 7848;
andi.spicer@ dowjones.com