Ethical gold mining & refinery in Zambia
Mining with Integrity for a Better Future
WE CARE ABOUT CLIMATE AND PEOPLE.
Our approach avoids harmful chemicals and focuses on a net positive impact for both people and planet.
Near Mumbwa
Exploration Licenses
Near Petauke
Near Kafue
Near Rufunsa
Sustainable Development Goals
We support the achievement of 8 out of the 17 SDG - Sustainable Development Goals
#1 Poverty
End poverty in all its forms everywhere
#2 Zero Hunger
End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
#3 Good Health and Well-being
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
#4 Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
#6 Clean Water & Sanitation
Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all
#7 Affordable & Clean Energy
Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all
#8 Decent Work & Economic Growth
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all
#17 Partnerships for the Goals
Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development
Team
Michel Mwamba Gschwendtner
Managing Director & Founder
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jomo Nyirenda
Managing Director
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
René Klein
Human Resources, Security & IT
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
Richard Schmidt
Legal & Controlling
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
Michael J. Bräuer
Finance & Accounting
Knowledge is one half, belief is the other.
Charles W. Nyirenda
Gold Operation
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Murad Sultanov
Production
No two things have been combined better than knowledge and patience.
Fikrat Mammadov
Machinery
A person is like the sun that breaks through the darkness
Paul Lupunga
Community & Ethical Standards
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Aishi Adhikary
Assistant Manager
Past is a history, future is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it's called present. So enjoy your present.
Allen Rozario
Assistant Manager
To see the world openly, you need a mind worth opening for because where there is life, there is hope.
Dagmar Bräuer
Assistent Finance Manager
The biggest things in life are not materials.
Steven Nkando
Board - License Partner, Gold Operation & Lobbyist
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Oliver Haeggberg
Board - Metallurgy & Geology
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Jesco von Puttkamer
Board - Token & Blockchain
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Elmar Grandy
Board - Gold Trading & LBMA
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Stone Vaasa
Board - Machinery Procurement
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Björn Schürenberg
Board - Legal & Finance
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Sam Sichilalu
Board - Mining Construction
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Dirk Christoph
Board - Net Positive Community
The Future is (Net) Positive.
what is invisible to others.
**Our DNA – Forged in Fire**
"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others"
We are not a company. We are a story of survival.
Our founder didn’t read about hardship – he lived it.
Adopted at the age of eight. Raised through storms most men don’t recover from.
And yet: He chose not bitterness, but vision.
Not control, but trust. Not greed, but sharing.
We have no polished origin story.
We have scars.
But that’s exactly why we stand.
Our DNA was not built in comfort – it was forged in fire.
We faced betrayal, hunger, breakdowns.
But through every fall, we rose tighter, stronger, clearer.
And from day one, Bootup Africa was never about one man.
It was about creating space for others to rise too.
While others fight over one nut,
we bring the whole bowl – and make sure everyone gets more than one.
Jomo said it best:
“Others divide one nut among many. We bring the bowl and feed the tribe.”
That’s our deal.
We don’t lead to win – we lead so others can win too.
We don’t harvest alone – we plant with others, and reap together.
Only one rule: We rise together – or not at all.
That’s why Bootup Africa stands.
And that’s why it cannot fall.
We build what others don’t dare to imagine.
Our vision is not born from comfort – it is shaped by the raw reality of life.
We’ve known what it means to start from nothing, to carry weight no child should carry, to rise through darkness.
That’s why our vision is clear:
To create a world where value is shared, not hoarded. Where those who build, also reap.
We are building systems that empower – not exploit.
We are designing opportunities that lift – not trap.
And we are doing it with those who were never invited to the table – by building our own table.
Bootup Africa exists to unlock potential – in people, in land, in legacy.
Not for one. Not for few. But for the many who still wait to be seen.
We are here to transform realities – starting with our own.
And we will not stop until well-being, dignity, and ownership are no longer rare, but normal.
That’s not a dream.
That’s our promise.
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