Wealth from London, Built on the BSE — Without Getting Your Hands Dirty
- kitsodickson
- May 22
- 4 min read
Updated: May 31
What if you could own real gold without digging or risking your life? The NewGold ETF lets you do just that. It’s like owning a piece of a gold bar stored safely in a vault. No pickaxe needed. You buy small units on the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE), and their value moves with the gold price.
Two months ago, soldiers who were patrolling the old, abandoned gold mine in Matsiloje found five Zimbabweans.
According to media reports, the group, three men and two teenagers, were believed to be illegal gold miners, also known as 'zama zamas’.
Since they didn’t have the right travel documents, they were arrested and taken to court in Francistown.
In the past year, an illegal miner got trapped in an old mine shaft and died, according to reports.
If only they knew. There’s another way to chase gold — one that doesn’t risk your life or freedom. One where your wealth grows quietly in a vault, not in a shaft.
They could have tried to own gold without ever touching a pickaxe or setting foot in a mine. Instead of hiding in bushes, you could still tap into the same golden dream:
Legally,
Safely,
and smartly
The gold would be stored safely in a vault in London, quietly going up in value while they live their lives freely. No threats of stealing, even from themselves.
Enter ETF
That’s what NewGold ETF lets you do.
For context (and illustrative purposes only), let us say that after days of hard digging, they finally strike gold. But it’s just one gold bar. Not enough for each person to take one home. So what do they do?
They agree to split it. Maybe not equally, but each one gets a portion.
One gets 30%,
Another 20%,
And the rest share the rest, depending on how much work they did or what tools they brought (whether they bought them or stole them).
They don’t each own a whole gold bar. Just a share of it. Just as you buy a share of the company but not the whole company (it would be too expensive to buy). Like owning a leg of a cow but not the whole cow.
Now, back to the gold bar. They quietly stash it in a vault.
Now what?
They can’t walk into a shop and sell the gold, maybe because it is expensive to buy the whole thing, even you won’t afford it.
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