ISAIHA MOMBILO MONGOMBE

The Congolese civil society of South Africa took the donation of 1/July/ 2020, with a lot of consideration because of its impact in families, where nothing was on the table for children and not knowing what next for them, the food comes at the right time, some families were on the edge of their hope, losing control.

There is no family we gave the food parcel without tears of joy and shock about the surprise unexpectedly, this is where we can still say there is a serious problem, if there is no assistance family will be in big trouble. Please any intention of continuing in assisting will be a way out of family disaster on food. 

The 37 food parcels were the very important package in size for a long lasting support,  the R 15.000 expenses. 

We discover things are getting very bad for refugees by listening to their story as we visited their home in dropping food parcels, so many are jobless even those one their companies are open in level 3 of the lock down, so many are fired.

We hope that somewhere people with love will see a right place and circumstance to spend their donations, we really thank ones again the donor, Stuart, Gwynne and the Jewish communities in providing with none stop the food parcels.

4TH AUGUST 2018: THE MISSING LINK EVENT OF HIROSHIMA, NAGASAKI AND SHINKOLOBWE, Hosted by Congolese civil society of South Africa  at the same place, South Africa national museum, IZIKO.

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THE CONGO’S NATURALS RESOURCES HIDDEN THE SILENT HOLOCAUST

1. HOLOCAUST OF RUBBER

The king of Belgium Leopold II, removed half population of Congolese by killing because the economic race of rubber on the first industrial revolution of the automobile which empower the European financial empire.

2. HOLOCAUST OF URANIUM , POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC DISASTER

The disaster of Congolese people politically and economically started on the day the US decide to control the the entire world with Congo's natural resources, it cause the death until our day of politic and economy of Congo which is the main cause of the beginning of the killing of millions of people by the increase of minerals demand.

3. HOLOCAUST OF COPPER AND COLTAN

The demand of 4th industrial revolution  oblige Congo to experiment the new holocaust compare the the the Leopold II killing of Congolese.

4. HOLOCAUST OF COBALT ON THE WAY

the global warming demand on electrical car in our day, drove the predators of Congo's minerals to push the agenda of cobalt on creating war and tribal conflict in Congo so that the minerals will be easy to export with cheap value.

MINERALS ARE THE MAIN CAUSE OF MIGRATION AND REFUGEE OF AFRICANS AROUND THE WORLD.

Our main specialists researcher is  Yves JOE SALANGANG  for all Congolese civil society of South Africa events.

On behalf of the Congolese community leaving in South Africa and all foreign nationals, we (the Congolese civil society) would like to thank the organizers who hosted this workshop for the privilege of the speech to share with you our view on this topic.

First all, we address our salutations to all the representatives of organizations who are here, knowing that you are all stakeholders with whom we aim to work in order to build a world to be a better place by engaging minority communities as a model for effective policy reform where, any human being will feel accepted, protected and integrated regardless of his origin, believe or color. That is the dream for which many people fought in the past, present and including the resolution from this workshop that we expect the consistent implementation to the future; may our generation let it become a reality.

We have been requested to share with you how we, as Congolese civil Society react when there are Xenophobic attacks?

It’s not easy to understand how desperate Congolese were when the first wave of xenophobia arose, if we may recall you, why many Congolese are here in South Africa.  

The Republic democratic of Congo has become since many years a non- state where, on one side people are daily facing war and rebellions with all the atrocities that are related; on the other side the government is oppressing his own people, without being able to offer any perspective for the future.

Coming in South Africa, for many Congolese means running to brothers and sisters for whom we stood when they were in need. But also, the image displayed of South Africa is an image of freedom, an image of Ubuntu.

The first episode of xenophobia in South Africa

In 2008, the financial crisis reached its zenith globally and local tensions against migrants similarly reached a boiling point. So, by the first outbreak of xenophobic attack, many African migrants were killed and thousands others forced to displacement. It was a real shock and surprise for many of us. While all the governments were interacting with their citizens ensuring that they were safe, we totally felt orphans as our government didn’t neither express his concern for our safety nor raise the voice to condemn such attacks. But, we believed that all the declarations and condemnations that followed, were enough to bring a change.  Unfortunately,

That was not the case. As we all know, in many cities, foreign citizen still face xenophobia.

Our observation made us noticing that: however in the beginning, xenophobia was an uncontrolled phenomenon coming from the mass, now, it became a political instrument. Respectable leaders, who were supposed to work against, are the one provoking and exciting the mass to attack foreigners.  

Our researches have revealed that xenophobia is not a spontaneous crime. But, the result of a logical process that mix two factors: an aggressive rhetoric and the ignorance reality.

1. The aggressive rhetoric:

Xenophobia always starts by simple words, simple statements that everybody ear without paying enough attention. We call it “the aggressive rhetoric”. That’s the back- bone of the crime. And it is based on three key elements:

· The falsification of the reality: Xenophobia starts when leaders starts making wrong statements such as: “our country has become the only one that welcome all the misery of Africa”, or “our country doesn’t have boarders anymore, foreigners come in as they want”, or “we are surrounded by uncontrolled and undocumented migrants”. At this stage, only few people are aware of what this rhetoric can lead to. Those statements are in other form an official order to attack.Then, comes the second elements:

The victimisation:  at this stage, we start hearing wrong statements such as: “Foreigners are dealing with drug”, or “undocumented foreigners are bringing crime in this country”, or “foreigners are taking our jobs”. Such rhetoric simply means this: “We should be living a better life if there were no foreigners here”, “foreigners are the reason of our problems”, “we are suffering because of foreigners”. At this stage, only few people can guess where these unfounded statements can  lead to. But, in fact, being undocumented is not a crime, it is a delict ( violation of law). And, our researches as proved that many of undocumented people are really willing to be regularized. But, are doors opened to them? Or, we are waiting for them to first climb on the fourth floor of a building and save a child like in France? The third element is:

· The differentiation: “Them” on one side and “Us” on the other side. At this stage, people start to categorize individuals simply based on their origins. So, there is no more common link between both groups. People are not seen as human who are the same, for the citizens, they claim, they deserve to be here which is right and foreigners are a disease of their miseries. 

2. The ignorance:

The aggressive rhetoric can only work if it meets with the ignorance of the reality. Whenever these two elements come together, it always ends up to xenophobia.

The ignorance is the safety box of South Africa government to use to blind South Africans to attack foreign nationals which means if the truth was said to the citizens about the lack of information concerning:

- The supports from the Africans countries during the apartheid ( quote the speech of 4 October 1973, by Mobutu speech in the UN, Africa is not free when South Africa is not free).

-  The involvement of Congolese minerals to boost South Africa economy.

- The contribution of the foreign nationals to South Africa economy (taxes, business….)

The impact of xenophobia may have different aspect than burning alive human being.( Durban 2015, Congolese burnt)

Our continent is under attack, a very bad disease: “No value of human being life.”

Now, as Congolese Civil Society of South Africa, how did we react when these attacks happened?

Ladies and gentlemen,

Since 2015, we have launched an informative program named “SHINKO”, aiming to make the public knowing the root of Congo problems. That will change their perspective of Congolese. That event happens annually on august. And during the last one, we presented the reality of the silent and hidden Congolese holocaust. Many of those who attend that event testified that they have never understood the Congolese tragedy in that way.

The involvement of South Africans in the hidden holocaust happening in D.R. Congo is also hidden, the entire world keep quiet, including South Africa. But, the saddest part is: South Africa supported Kabila regime despite the fact that it’s oppressing Congolese who are forced by fact to leave their country.

But, South Africa is also deeply involved in the looting of Congo’s minerals; which makes congo becoming one of the poorest countries in the world; one of the reason why, besides the war, Congolese are here as refugees and migrants.

Once here, Congolese have to struggle again even to obtain documentation or to register their children at school. This is a massive destruction of many generations. This become like a net   

where, moving from a place to another one doesn’t solve the problem.

This figure can briefly sumeriese it. ( EXPLAIN THE POWER POINT)

Indeed, If we don’t make our fellow  south African brothers and sisters understand what makes us coming here, they may consider us as people who come to invade them than brothers and sisters who came to look for support from members of a family that they supported when they were in need also.

Currently, we target a new category of public that has to be involved in the change of perspective: the youth. If we make our youth understanding that the spirit of Ubuntu and cohabitation must prevail on our differences, we can’t expect any durable change.

That’s why; the Congolese civil society of South Africa has initiated a new informative program for youth. The first edition will take place on the 22nd September, at Good Hope, we will like to take this opportunity to invite you to take part of the event.

Our objective is to make youth part of analyses, discussions and solution of problems that affect Africa.

For our first edition, youth of South Africa, Nigeria, Cameroun, Angola, Zimbabwe and D.R.Congo will analyse the state of freedom of Africa as well as the unity of our continent and our roots.

It’s our collective mission and responsibility to make our youth knowing the main reason behind the running of foreign nationals to South Africa through the history and reality of African countries and his people. That will help them to discover our common roots and links that are more important than our differences.

We want our youth to know that a foreigner is not an enemy, but just a brother. We want them to stop hating each other. We want them to be actors of unity. But, how can they stop xenophobia if they don’t know each other?

Xenophobia is like throwing a stone in the air, it always comes back in the direction of the one who threw it. Xenophobia destroys not only on one side, but even those who attack destroy their own side also. If we can’t see that, it’s because we are blind enough to see the most important things. If we can’t see that, it’s probably because we’ve never watch this. 

We started our speech by explaining that xenophobia happens when two elements meet: the aggressive rhetoric and the ignorance of realities. We then decided since 2015 to inform the public and make them understanding the realities and history of Africans countries. That’s our way to break the second element of the tandem and prevent xenophobia and discriminations to occur.

As we start this year with six countries, our next step is to organize events that will involve the youth of all the African countries that are hosted in South Africa. But, our final goal is to gather youth of all Africa yearly and build an African youth congress ( AYC). 

By Isaiah Mombilo

I quote Albert Einstein said: the world is a dangerous place to live ;not because of the people who are evil ,but because of the people who don’t do anything about it. 

1. So it is’’ a must’’ for us to think now about ourselves, the past, present and future, we cannot stand by watching and let Congo to be infected with the virus of massive killings and so the charity begins at home.

The nineteen century ,the Congo contributed more for the new technology of that period which was the invention of car tires, named ‘’rubber’’, 

During that period the Belgian king Leopold II for his own honor and benefit ,used the Congolese as a bulls in the production of rubber for trade his genocidal exploitation of Congolese territory .particularly the rubber trade ,caused many deaths and much suffering,murder,mutilation were common. 

Ten million Congolese died during the years that Leopold II and the Belgian government controlled the country. It’s likely that more people died in Belgian holocaust than died in Hitler's. but no one was ever brought to book and crime is largely unknown. Failure to meet the rubber collection quotas was punishable by death.one junior officer described a raid to punish a village that had protested.

The officer in command ordered us to cut off the heads of the men and hang them on the village palisades.. and to hang the women and the children on palisade in the form of a cross. After seeing a Congolese person killed for the first time ,a Danish missionary wrote:

The soldier said : don’t take this to heart so much, they kill us if we don’t bring the rubber.

The baskets of severed hands ,set down at the feet of the European post commanders, became the symbol of the ‘’Congo free state’’ the Congo was a play ground for sadists.

The 1996,new era of holocaust managed by Rwanda-Burundi –Uganda and international community combined with multi organizations to protect or to cover ‘’the massacre in Congo’’ given by the brand name ‘’ethnic war or ethnic conflicts’’ that is not truth. The Congolese holocaust was planned , the human right or the peace force does not show any interest in the deaths, violations, rapes ,crimes that took place over the country, more than 8 million Congolese died and still die because of the Congo resources ,we(Congolese) have to pay ,remember every times you have  cellphones or computers you keep the Congolese innocents bloods in your hands, always technology sucks the Congolese e bloods

The coming era of holocaust in Congo is the cars batteries, as we explain other carnage have been taking place before this one we need to stand up to defend ourselves, the country needs a strong leadership who can invest for the Congolese future.it’s our responsibility don’t let nobody turn you around.  

A group of under age from D.R.Congo who provides minerals for all industrial generation to contain control over financial capital without recognition of the Congolese children education in specialized on latest technology.  

For the past centuries or so many years the question of the silent holocaust happened in DR.CONGO because of it natural resources make the Congolese civil society of South Africa to rise the information around the world which never been told since:

-1885: half population was killed because of rubbers. -1945: world war II, the Atomic bomb made from Rd. Congo and dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ( nuclear negative impact in Shinkolobwe mine) . -1960-2019: the curse of coltan and cobalt on Congolese people, politic and economy. -2019 to the future: prevention of a new area of holocaust because the cobalt demand on electrical cars industry. - and the effect these have on its current development trajectory have been a burning in the minds of academics and citizens alike. 

The event were  hosted at national museum of South Africa on 3rd August 2019

Through this event, we aim to trace the timeline of Congolese holocaust and nuclear disaster, to answer what these have meant and how they have affected its people. The aim to conscientize and inform the entire world on the missing link of the history, technology damage in Congolese life and to forge forward with relevant solutions.  

The program is meant to go beyond conversations on highlighting on the dark history of Congolese’s holocaust, the unfair exploitation of natural resources, human rights atrocities and the massive killing of people since 1885.

To also prove that this cruel need of Congolese minerals in military, technology and automobile industry process is still ongoing in a different way and as a society we have to educate people by giving information for the entire world to be away and to find a way of solution. This is in order to assure that in reinventing and rebuilding Congo, we do not act in isolation or in revolt but in accordance with the same values and goals, with patriotism for African Renaissance.