Clotilde Mutita Kalunga

Clotilde Mutita served as deputy mayor of Lubumbashi. In 2015, she resigned from her position to express her allegiance to her party, the National Union of Federalist Democrats (Unadef), one of the signatories of the open letter urging President Joseph Kabila to hold elections on schedule.

She is the deputy coordinator responsible for ideological training and mobilization of the Together for the Republic party in the Haut-Katanga province, under the leadership of businessman and politician Moise Katumbi Chapwe.

She was elected both as a national and provincial deputy for the Lubumbashi-Ville constituency in the December 20, 2023 legislative elections.

On December 31, 2017, the lay coordination committee called for demonstrations in various parishes of the DRC. Unexpectedly, police and FARDC were deployed outside churches to prevent these demonstrations. Arbitrary arrests and mistreatment occurred at the Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Cathedral in Lubumbashi and the basilica in Kenya where tear gas was used inside the church.

Twenty young Catholics were arrested and detained in a police cell. Clotilde Mutita, honorary mayor of Lubumbashi, who was supervising the demonstrators outside the Saints-Pierre-et-Paul Cathedral, was mistreated and taken to the Don Bosco Polyclinic due to injuries sustained. She had lost consciousness after receiving several blows to her foot from a police officer and was left for dead on the cathedral steps.^[7]