Moïse Katumbi Chapwe
| Moïse Katumbi | |
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| Governor of Katanga Province | |
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In office January 2007 – 29 September 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Ngoie Kisula |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Claude Kazembe Musonda |
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| Born |
28 December 1964 Kashobwe, Congo-Kinshasa |
| Political party |
People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (Before 2015) Independent (2015–18) Together for Change (2018–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Carine Katumbi |
Moïse Katumbi Chapwe (born 28 December 1964) is a Congolese politician and businessman. He was the Governor of the Katanga Province, located in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, from 2007 to September 2015. He was a member of the People's Party for Reconstruction and Democracy (PPRD) until September 2015. He has been described by The Economist as "probably the second most powerful man in the Democratic Republic of Congo after the president, Joseph Kabila".Jeune Afrique named him "African of the Year" in 2015.
Moïse Katumbi was born on 28 December 1964 to a Congolese mother and a Greek father, Nissim Soriano. Katumbi's father, a Greek Sephardic Jew, fled Rhodes Island in 1938 with his two sisters after the introduction by the Italian fascist regime of the discriminatory Racial Laws (Rhodes was under Italian occupation since 1912). He settled in Katanga, a province of the Congo, which was a Belgian colony at the time. Katumbi's mother was of Kazembe royalty of Lunda People of Congo and Zambia and his grandfather was Mwata Kazembe XIV.(Chief of Lunda Kingdom) The family adopted the name Katumbi from a great grandfather on his mother’s side. Katumbi grew up in the village of Kashobwe in the Congo near Lake Mweru near the border of Zambia. His father was involved in the fishing trade.
Katumbi studied at the Kiwele school of Lubumbashi and the Kapolowe mission. He is married to Carine Katumbi. His 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.
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