Ethical Gold Mining 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
Near Petauke
Exploration Licenses
Near Petauke
Near Kafue
Near Rufunsa
Team
Michel Mwamba Gschwendtner
Founder & President
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Leopold Gschwendtner
Padawan & Administration
Unwavering Perspicacity Coupled with absolute Indefatigability.
Jomo Nyirenda
Managing Director
Leadership is not claimed, it’s proven in vision, courage, and consistency.
Russell Read
Finance
Transforming the world’s use of resources through sustainable infrastructure.
Richard Schmidt
Legal & Security
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
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
The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.
Michael J. Bräuer
Accounting
Knowledge is one half, belief is the other.
Shutai Zhang
Procurement
A team is the foundation upon which grand visions become tangible realities.
Aishi Adhikary
Human Resources
Past is a history, future is a mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it's called present. So enjoy your present.
Steven Nkando
License Partner
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Erik F. Schwinge
Investor Relations
Cheerfulness is neither dalliance nor complacency, it is the highest knowledge and love, it is the affirmation of all reality. Being awake at the edge of all depths and abysses. It is the secret of beauty and the very substance of all art.
Oliver Haeggberg
Metallurgy & Geology
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Jesco von Puttkamer
Blockchain
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Elmar Grandy
Gold Trading & LBMA
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Stone Vaasa
Machinery Procurement
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Björn Schürenberg
Litigation Finance
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
Sam Sichilalu
Mining Construction
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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.
Impact
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.