43 Facts About Moise Katumbi

Moise Katumbi Chapwe is a Congolese businessman and politician.

Moise Katumbi was Governor of Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015.

Moise Katumbi was a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy until September 2015.

Moise Katumbi has been described by The Economist as "probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila".

Moise Katumbi was born on 28 December 1964 to a Congolese mother and a Sephardic Jewish father from Greece, Nissim Soriano.

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Moise Katumbi settled in Katanga, in the Congo, a Belgian colony at the time.

Moise Katumbi's grandfather was Mwata Kazembe XIV The family adopted the name Katumbi from a great-grandfather on his mother's side.

Moise Katumbi grew up in the village of Kashobwe in the Congo near Lake Mweru near the border of Zambia.

Moise Katumbi studied at the Kiwele school of Lubumbashi and the Kapolowe mission.

Moise Katumbi's older half-brother is Raphael Katebe Katoto, a businessman and retired politician who was a member of RCD-Goma and led a political party that opposed Congolese president Joseph Kabila in 2006.

Moise Katumbi has been the subject of two documentaries by director Thierry Michel: Katanga Business and The Irresistible Rise of Moise Katumbi .

Moise Katumbi's career began in the fishing industry when he was 13.

Moise Katumbi sold salted and fresh fish to the state-owned mining company Gecamines.

Moise Katumbi founded MCK in 1997, which specialized in mining and logistics and subcontracted for mining companies in the region, including Gecamines.

Around 2000, during the Second Congo War, Moise Katumbi moved to Zambia, where he had business ties in transportation.

Moise Katumbi returned to the DRC in 2003 by invitation from President Kabila, who urged Katumbi to help fix the mining industry in Katanga.

Since 1997, Moise Katumbi has been the president of the football team TP Mazembe in Lubumbashi.

Moise Katumbi has invested heavily in the team and been credited by the media and public as one of the reasons for the club's success.

Moise Katumbi invested $35 million in building the team a stadium which was completed in 2011.

Moise Katumbi began a football academy in 2012 as a social program to engage and train young Congolese people in the province of Katanga.

Moise Katumbi has served on the marketing committee of the Confederation of African Football since 2009.

Moise Katumbi was the first democratically elected Governor of the Katanga Province in January 2007, receiving 94 votes out of 102.

Moise Katumbi's governance has been credited with bringing economic revival to the province through developing infrastructure, encouraging foreign investment with tax breaks and reduced government procedures, and targeting corruption.

Shortly after he took office as governor, Moise Katumbi implemented an export ban for raw minerals, including cobalt, forcing major mining companies to either build processing plants in the province or pay a tax on the exported concentrate.

Moise Katumbi offered both free farmland and tax breaks for farmers to encourage food production.

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In September 2015, Moise Katumbi resigned as governor and from his political party, the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy.

On 2 January 2018, Moise Katumbi declared his candidacy for president for the 2018 DR Congo general election.

On 12 March 2018, Moise Katumbi officially launched his presidential campaign as well as his new political alliance, Ensemble pour le changement .

Moise Katumbi was accused of being behind the 2018 Equateur province Ebola virus outbreak.

On 13 June, Moise Katumbi was arrested at Zaventem Airport in Brussels for allegedly traveling with a fake passport while attempting to travel to Russia to attend the opening ceremony of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Moise Katumbi was later granted a temporary residence permit by the Belgian authorities.

Moise Katumbi discovered that Congolese authorities had canceled his passport while going through customs at Zaventem.

On 3 August 2018, Moise Katumbi was blocked from entering the DR Congo via the border with Zambia.

Moise Katumbi was greeted by thousands of his supporters in the Zambian portion of the town of Kasumbalesa, along the border with the DR Congo.

In December 2021, Moise Katumbi officially launched his political party in view of the 2023 presidential election.

In 2006 and 2011, Moise Katumbi supported Joseph Kabila for President of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Moise Katumbi has been outspoken about his belief that President Kabila should follow the country's constitution and step down as president in 2016.

In January 2016, Moise Katumbi joined other high-profile Congolese figures in a coalition dubbed "Front Citoyen 2016".

Moise Katumbi is against Katangese secession from Congo, which is supported by a section of the province's population.

Moise Katumbi has frequently said that he prefers his private career to politics.

Moise Katumbi is generally viewed positively both in Katanga Province and nationally for both his development of the Katanga region and as president of TP Mazembe.

Moise Katumbi is known for being generous, giving money directly to those who ask and investing his own funds in social causes.

In 2011, nearly one million people signed a petition asking Moise Katumbi to remain governor after he said he planned to quit.