Union Minière Du Haut Katanga Africa Medal

Description: 32Bronze medal, Belgium.Struck around 1956.Note a few shocks on the edge, including 2 more significant visible on the reverse at 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock.Engraver : GA Brunet .Dimensions : 86 mm .Weight : 233 g.Metal : bronze .Mark on the edge : FONSON .Fast and careful shipping.Belgian Congo (Belgisch-Kongo in Dutch) was the name given to the territory of the current Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between 15 November 1908, the end of the Congo Free State, personal possession for 23 years of King Leopold II of the Belgians, and the accession to Congolese independence, effective on 30 June 1960. During the 52 years of the colonial period, the Belgian Congo was managed from Brussels, but with its army, the Force Publique, under the authority of a governor general. In 1908, the Chamber of Deputies accepted the will of Leopold II who donated the Congo Free State to Belgium and voted for its annexation a year before the king's death. From then on, it was officially in the name of Belgium, a sovereign state, that the troops stationed in the Belgian Congo were able to guarantee the integrity of the conquest. This annexation recognized by the great powers, the administration of the former Independent State was transformed into the Belgian administration which did everything to erase the image of Leopold II as having been a tyrant allowing the populations to be exploited by his men (not only Belgians, there are more than ten nationalities among the “colonials” of the time). When Belgium took over, article 2 of the Colonial Charter of October 18, 1908, voted by the Belgian parliament, prescribed that: “No one may be forced to work on behalf of and for the benefit of companies or individuals” . To erase the image of rubber and cut hands, the cultivation of cotton and oil palm was developed and the picking of wild rubber was replaced by the cultivation of rubber trees. The Congo Reform Association, the British association which was at the origin of the orchestrated campaign against the Congo Free State, decided to disband in 1913, while the Congo would develop its economy and its exports, going so far as to deliver 23,000 tons of cotton in 1932 and 127,000 in 1939. At the same time, the exploitation of minerals such as gold, tin, copper and, above all, uranium would help make the Congo an economic power, which would contribute to the salvation of Belgium during the two world wars;The colony was then managed by three powers which balanced each other: the administration, the Catholic missions and large private companies4.The French language was, from the beginning to the end of the Belgian presence in the Congo, the only official language, which made the Congo, which had become independent, one of the most important officially French-speaking countries, the second, in terms of population, after France.EducationAt the beginning, teaching was set up by private Christian missions which financed their activities through donations,In 1908, the Chamber of Deputies accepted the will of Leopold II who donated the Congo Free State to Belgium and voted for its annexation a year before the king's death. From then on, it was officially in the name of Belgium, a sovereign state, that the troops stationed in the Belgian Congo were able to guarantee the integrity of the conquest. This annexation recognized by the great powers, the administration of the former Independent State was transformed into the Belgian administration which did everything to erase the image of Leopold II as having been a tyrant allowing the populations to be exploited by his men (not only Belgians, there are more than ten nationalities among the “colonials” of the time). When Belgium took over, article 2 of the Colonial Charter of October 18, 1908, vote

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