Hey M-A,

It seems to me that Kinshasa, even under Mobutu's rule, never controlled anything to include Lubumbashi. Back then there was no internet nor cell, and what took place there never mattered and it took weeks to reach the Presidential palace. It was our consulate in 84 that warned Uncle Mo of a potential uprising at the mines and the soldiers he sent only seemed to make things worse.

Lubumbashi and her inhabitants have always lived an exclusive and lackadaisical life living over a thousand clicks from troubled Kinshasa and many more from Gbadolite. Never an uprising and always great cuts of beef from across the border to trade for ivory, malachite, etc.

Regards, Stan