Katanga Business

Katanga Business is a 2009 film by Belgian director Thierry Michel that explores the mining industry in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The film surveys the industrial and artisanal mining industry in Katanga Province. The film explores the murky dealings between the stateowned Gcamines, foreign mining companies such as First Quantum Minerals and individuals like George Forrest, Indian and Chinese investors and state officials. It questions who benefits from the mining operations. Katanga Business highlights the charismatic governor of the province, the populist Moses Katumbi. It shows the great wealth of the province and the abject poverty of the miners.Thierry Michel had produced works on the DRC over a period of seventeen years before making Katanga Business. Earlier works were Zaire, le cycle du serpent 1992, Les Derniers Colons 1995, Mobutu roi du Zare 1999 and Congo River, Beyond Darkness 2005. Taken together his films provide a unique overview of the social, economic and political life of the country. He made the television documentary film Katanga, la guerre du cuivre Katanga, the copper war earlier in 2009, the basis for the film. A book was published with the same title including text and photographs by Thierry Michel. ........

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