The South African Green Investor Who Took On Trump - And Won

Linda Mabhena-Olagunju is probably one of the few African investors, right now, who can crack a smile at the mention of Donald Trump. It is hard for Africa in the US president's strange new world of turmoil and tariffs, in which the continent is set to lose billions of dollars' worth of aid and support.

The reason? As a young lawyer, back in 2007, Mabhena-Olagunju locked horns with Trump's legal team in court and won.

Not a bad scalp for a woman who grew up by candlelight in her grandparents' village in South Africa's Eastern Cape.

Mabhena-Olagunju was studying for her master's degree in international and commercial law at the University of Aberdeen on the windy north-east coast of Scotland. The city, once the centre of the British oil and gas industry, now has a claim to being a green city it even has a bus fleet that runs on zero-emission hydrogen.

The young lawyer, then in her early 20s, joined the legal team of the municipality-backed Aberdeen Renewable Energy Group in its first attempt to turn the mighty winds of the rugged Scottish coast into green energy.