Full background report
Lyapa Manza
Country Manager – Zambia
Career chronology
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Named in September 2025 Muntanga ESIA: GoviEx Uranium Zambia Limited — Country Manager. Muntanga Uranium Project environmental and social impact assessment (cover page)
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2013 appointment: Kaboko Mining Limited — Mine Manager. Mansa project update (p. 2)
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Credited in September 2017 standards: Rwanda Mines, Petroleum and Gas Board — Mining safety standards expert. Mining safety standards (cover)
Business failures and setbacks
Kaboko entered external administration after a documented Mansa appointment
2013 appointment; 2015–2016 company administration · documented · medium materiality
Kaboko appointed Manza as Mansa mine manager in 2013. The company’s secured creditor appointed receivers in April 2015, followed by voluntary administrators. A March 2016 update said the receivers had retired and deed administrators continued to control the company. His employment end date and whether he remained involved in 2015 are not established.
Attribution: Employer context; no individual link established. The reviewed documents do not establish tenure overlap with administration or personal responsibility for the company outcome.
Relevance: A prior employer outcome relevant to interpreting the career record, subject to the explicit attribution limit.
Mansa project update (p. 2, appointment); Appointment of administrators (p. 1, administrator appointment); Company update (p. 1, deed administrator update)
Suitability for the current role
Experience and role fit
Roles and evidence through 31 October 2026 · analyst inference · medium materiality
Analyst inference: documented management and mining-safety experience is relevant to Zambia project and community execution; no attributable mine commissioning is established.
Attribution: Responsibility not applicable. Role-fit assessment only; not a finding that the person caused an employer result or guarantees execution.
Relevance: Relevant to the assigned development-stage role.
Board and Management (Management roster); Muntanga Uranium Project environmental and social impact assessment (cover page); Mansa project update (p. 2); Mining safety standards (cover)
Evidence gaps
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Current issuer management page is undated; the start date of the Atomic Eagle appointment is not established.
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Independent checks of degrees, employment history, regulator and court records are incomplete; open-web screening is not exhaustive.
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Manza’s Kaboko employment end date and whether he remained during its 2015 administration are unverified.