sentences:  Katanga and the Congo were both taken over by the Belgian government in 1908 in response to the international outcry over the brutality of Leopold's Congo Free State, and were merged in 1910 as the Belgian Congo, but the legacy of the previous separation was a tendency of Katanga to secede.The Belgian Congo administration with its policy of direct rule did nothing to prepare the country for independence in 1960 and within a few years "Congo" and "Katanga" became such bywords for strife and chaos that the Mobutu regime, in a futile effort to improve its image, changed the names to "Zaire" and "Shaba" respectively (since reverted).Cecil Rhodes got over any disappointment at losing the scramble for Katanga by doing what he did best − he invested in mineral prospecting and mining in Katanga.