Olive Lembe di Sita
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Olive Lembe di Sita Kabila is a Congolese woman, born on July 29th 1976 in Kailo, Maniema, Democratic Republic of the Congo. She was the very secretive and discreet - almost elusive - long-term (since 2000) fiancée of Congolese President Joseph Kabila. On June 17th, 2006 she married her long term fiancee, becoming her country's first lady.
In 2001, a daughter was born to the couple, Sifa Kabila, named after Kabila's own mother, and former - similarly discreet and secretive - first lady Sifa Mahanya.
[edit] Wedding
On June 1, 2006, after many wedding rumors were recently fueled by the Catholic Archbishop of Kinshasa, Frédéric Cardinal Etsou-Nzabi-Bamungwabi, the head of the MAISON CIVIL, Amb. Theo Mugalu officially announced the wedding of Ms. Lembe di Sita to the President.
Two different dates had emerged, some reports stating June 10, 2007[1], and other stating June 10, 2006[2]. The wedding eventually took place on June 17, 2006 at the Presidential residence, in La Gombe, Kinshasa [3].
As President Kabila is Protestant, and Ms. Lembe di Sita is Catholic, the wedding ceremony was somewhat ecumenical, with both Cardinal Etsou, and Mgr Pierre Molefe Bodho - Bishop and President of the Church of Christ in zambia, the umbrella church for most Protestant denominations in Congo - officiating. Cardinal Etsou had preeminence however.
