Word: katanga
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...First Millionaire. In the bush, few if any of the warriors took up their weapons, but this was due perhaps as much to bad communications as to disobedience; although Tshombe has virtually no support among the Balubas in the northern half of Katanga, he is strongly backed by the proud Lunda people of the south. It was there, in the Lulua River country along the Angola border, at Sandoa, that Moise Tshombe grew to manhood, the first son of the region's richest tribesman. His father Joseph was a thriving merchant with a string of 16 village stores that...
...become Mwata Yamvo Ditende Yawa Nawezi III, supreme ruler of all the Lunda. Ditende's influence helped when Tshombe sought and won a seat on the Elisabethville city council (a tame advisory body under the thumb of the Belgian provincial governor) in 1947, then moved up to the Katanga provincial council...
...ferment for Congolese independence, it was only natural that Moise Tshombe would be in on the founding in 1959 of Katanga's first full-fledged political party, the Confederation des Associations du Katanga (Conakat). The new group was backed chiefly by Tshombe's (and his father-in-law's) own fiercely independent Lunda tribesmen, who were happy enough to win freedom from the Belgians but had no great desire to be part of one big Congo family, since most of the vast mineral deposits were located right down in Katanga's southern tip-Lunda country...
...Round Table Conference in Brussels to discuss a future independent Congo. It was there that his colleagues first began to notice the array of white advisers who were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga's powerful white settler group; they, like Tshombe. had a large stake in an independent, or at least partially autonomous, Katanga...
Tribal Traditions. In his policy of secession, no one could say with accuracy that Tshombe spoke for all Katanga, or even half. But Tshombe's supporters, including the Lunda, make up no more than one-third of the population; he would risk his life by traveling in some regions of the Baluba north, where he is hated for his tribal affiliation and for the murderous, plundering raids of his Lunda army units against opposition Baluba villages last summer...