Salomon Tshizand

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Salomon Tshizand
Minister of Economic Affairs of the State of Katanga
In office
June 1960 – 23 May 1961
Personal details
Born1913
Sandoa, Belgian Congo
Died23 May 1961
Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Political partyIndependent

Salomon Tshizand (1913–1961) was a Congolese and Katangese politician.

Life

Salomon Tshizand was born in Sandoa in 1913 in a Lunda family. He attended a Methodist school, and was a deeply religious Methodist.[1] He attended the Mulungwishi Methodist Seminary for three years and became a Methodist priest.

On 16 June 1960, before the independence of the

Moise Tshombe declared the independence of the State of Katanga. Tshizand became the Minister of Economic Affairs of the secessionist state. His cabinet consisted of Jean Nawej as his Chef de Cabinet and Pherson Nguza as his Deputy Chef de Cabinet.[3]

On 15 January 1961, two days before the assassination of first

Prime Minister of the Congo Patrice Lumumba, Tshizand attended a meeting together with other Katangese authorities Moïse Tshombe, Jean-Baptiste Kibwe, Frédéric Vandewalle, Colonel Crèvecœur, Guy Weber, Jacques Bartelous, and ONUC authorities. According to the Belgian parliamentary inquiry into the Lumumba assassination, it is not excluded that the possible transfer of Lumumba to Katanga was discussed during the meeting.[4]

From 24 March to 6 April 1961, Tshizand led a Katangese delegation to Paris. The report of the mission mentioned that many organisations and companies expressed pro-Katangese sentiments, such as the Union Aéromaritime de Transport, CFAO (entreprise) [fr], and Conseil national du patronat français.[5]

Death

In May 1961, Tshizand went on an official economic mission to

Élisabethville. Katanga's Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo gave the funeral oration.[6]

References

  1. ^ Congo 1960 (in French). CRISP. 1961. p. 129.
  2. ^ Chomé, Jules (1966). Moise Tshombe et I'escroquerie katangaise (in French). Brussels: Fondation Jos. Jacquemotte. pp. 217n22.
  3. ISBN 2-87083-013-0
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  4. Belgian Chamber of Representatives
    . 16 November 2001. pp. 308–9. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  5. ^ Gérard-Libois, Jules. Sécession au Katanga (in French). Brussels/Léopoldville: CRISP. p. 201.
  6. British Pathé
    . 1961-05-28. Retrieved 2021-11-10.

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