Background
Kaweta Milombe Sampassa was born on January 23, 1942, at Likasi in Shaba (Katanga) in a Lunda family.
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Kaweta Milombe (Godefroid) Maximilien Sampassa
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Educated locally at the College St Gregoire in Lubumbashi and at the UOC, Universite Officielle du Congo at Lubumbashi where he got a degree in economics and finance, in 1966. He then became a professor and director of the Institute of Social Studies at Lubumbashi.
Career
He was a member of the Katanga provincial government looking after the Education portfolio and for a few months in 1966, until the suppression of the provincial government, was head civil servant in the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Energy.
By 1967, he had been given the important post in charge of the JMPR (Youth Wing of the MPR) and he became secretary-general of the JMPR in August 1969. He was elected as the MPR member for Lualaba in November 1970 and became Minister of Youth and Sports in December 1970; at the same time he retains his position as secretary-general of the Youth movement.
Personality
A hardline party man and forceful personality who succeeded Hubert Makanda as head of the important Youth 'wing of the MPR. He was dropped from the Bureau Politique when it was drastically pruned from 35 to 15 members on February 21, 1972, but this did not affect his fundamental standing in the party. He is a reliable executor of party policy. During the student unrest in 1969 he somewhat reluctantly followed the party line and forced students to establish MPR youth cells in the university.
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Born
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Nationality
Congolese
Education
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1966
Universite Officielle du Congo , Economics and Finance Lubumbashi, Katanga, The Democratic Republic of the Congo
Career
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August, 1969
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1970
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December, 1970