Africa GreenCo / GreenCo Power Services

12/08/2026

Empowerment is not a speech. It is a hiring decision, a promotion panel and a pay conversation.

Seventy years on from 1956, the rules that shape opportunity are quieter, and they sit inside institutions. Who gets shortlisted. Who gets developed. Who gets believed.

Rosinah Magidi (Hons), Human Capital Associate at Africa GreenCo, works where those decisions are actually made.

Her words:

“As an HR professional, I see empowered women inspire progress by breaking barriers, uplifting others, and building workplaces where talent is recognised without bias, creating lasting impact for our nation.”

Recognised without bias. That is not a sentiment. It is a standard, and it is checkable.

12/08/2026

The women of 1956 did not only march. They made themselves impossible to ignore.

That is what communication does. It takes work that would otherwise happen quietly and puts it where the country can see it. Visibility is not vanity. It is how a contribution becomes a precedent, and how a precedent becomes normal.

Bontle Moeng, Communications and Marketing Manager at Africa GreenCo, shapes how the story of Southern Africa’s energy transition gets told, and who gets heard telling it.

Her words:

“Empowered women can change their own life stories and share the story of an entire nation. Communication is a powerful tool that amplifies women’s voices, creates visibility for their contributions and inspires a more inclusive Africa.”

Seventy years on, the microphone still matters. So does who is holding it.

11/08/2026

A transition designed by a narrow group of people will serve a narrow group of people.

Africa's energy sector is being rebuilt right now. New generation, new market structures, new finance. Whoever sits in the rooms where those decisions are made will shape who benefits from them for the next thirty years. Representation here is not a side conversation about fairness. It is a question about the quality of what gets built.

Getting it right takes practical routes in rather than statements of intent. Technical training. Access to finance. Procurement that opens to new entrants. Room for women already in the sector to move from participation into decision making.

Women Leaders for Climate Action is convening that conversation. Women Energizing Africa runs on Friday 28 August at the Southern Sun in Lusaka, covering renewable energy, energy access, finance, technology and entrepreneurship. Africa GreenCo is supporting the event alongside Enterprise Power.

Register here: https://lnkd.in/dnAEHpxt

Or scan the QR code on the poster to register and secure your ticket.

11/08/2026

Some work is done quietly, and noticed most in its absence.

Service in uniform asks for discipline that does not seek recognition, and for a commitment measured in years rather than moments. It is carried by men and women whose duty takes them away from their families, and it is shared by the families who wait.

Today Zimbabwe marks Defence Forces Day. Africa GreenCo joins the nation in recognising the men and women of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, past and present, and the households that stand behind them.

To everyone who serves, and to all our Happy People in Zimbabwe, a meaningful Defence Forces Day.

11/08/2026

Some responsibilities are not granted. They are already carried.

That is one way to read this year’s theme. Empowerment is not something conferred on women at a ceremony. It is a capacity already present, waiting for the room to make space for it.

Isabel Fick, our Group Head of Trading and Operations at Africa GreenCo, leads the team that buys and trades clean power across the Southern African Power Pool, where the decisions are technical, commercial and consequential every single day.

Her words:

“Women are the God-given vessel for the creation of life. We are therefore already, by default, empowered to build the nation. It is a double-edged sword, as it also implies we have the enormous responsibility to empower our children in all aspects of life. In business, the same principles apply. Women have a place and a role to contribute, and empowering women to do so is unlocking the nation’s potential to be and become inclusive and thrive!”

A place and a role. Both, not one.

11/08/2026

A nation is not powered by one current. It is powered by many, running together.

That is a useful way to think about empowerment. Not a single celebrated figure, but a whole set of contributions carrying load at the same time. Remove any one of them and the system runs weaker.

Louise Snyman, our Head of Risk at Africa GreenCo, holds the discipline that lets the rest of the business move with confidence: understanding exposure, pricing uncertainty and protecting the structures that make clean power bankable.

Her words:

“Empowered Women Empower the Nation: At Africa GreenCo, each of our women colleagues brings her own charge; on the trading floor, in the engineering field, and in life beyond work, that current comes together to power, and empower, the nation.”

Her own charge. Every one of them.

10/08/2026

Every generation of South African women has inherited a door that someone else pushed open.

The women of 1956 pushed. Seventy years later the question is what the next generation sees when they look at our workplaces, our panels and our boardrooms. Representation is not decoration. For a young woman deciding what is possible, it is evidence.

Sphesihle Mpanza, Business Development Trainee at Africa GreenCo, is at the start of a career in the sector that will power the continent’s next fifty years.

Her words:

“When women are given the platform to lead and inspire others in the workplace, they not only drive meaningful change today, but also give the next generation hope that they matter, that their voices are valued, and that they can achieve any goal they set for themselves.”

Give women the platform. Then watch who else steps up because they saw it.

10/08/2026

Representation in energy is not a question of fairness alone. It changes what gets built.

Women Leaders for Climate Action is convening Women Energizing Africa on Friday 28 August at the Southern Sun in Lusaka, looking at where the real openings are for women across renewables, energy access, finance, technology and entrepreneurship. We are glad to support it.

Registration is open. Book your place at https://lnkd.in/dnAEHpxt or scan the QR code on the event poster.

📢 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘!

𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗜𝗭𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗔𝗙𝗥𝗜𝗖𝗔 𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗥: 𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗢𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗬 𝗧𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡.

Join Women Leaders for Climate Action (WLCA) and its partners Africa GreenCo / GreenCo Power Services and Enterprise Power for a solution-oriented hybrid event exploring opportunities for women across the energy sector, from renewable energy and energy access to finance, technology and entrepreneurship.

📅 Friday, 28 August 2026
🕢 07:30 AM – 10:00 AM
📍 Southern Sun Hotel, Lusaka
🎟️ Ticket: K650 | MTN Mobile Money: 0769801927

📲 Scan the QR code on the event poster to register or secure your ticket today, or register via the link below:

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SAVE THE DATE. BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION.

10/08/2026

Admission to the Bar cannot be talked into existence.

There is no shortcut through the years of study, the examinations, or the standard of conduct that follows an advocate for the rest of her career. It is a slow qualification, and that slowness is the point. The profession is asking whether you can be relied on.

Kayula Kowa has answered. She has been admitted to the Zambian Bar as an advocate of the High Court of Zambia.

Kayula is part of our team at Africa GreenCo, which means her colleagues watched a good portion of this happen up close. That does not make it a company milestone. It is hers, alongside her family and everyone who kept her going through it.

Congratulations, Kayula. Sworn in, and thoroughly deserving of the noise

10/08/2026

The law asks for something before it gives anything back.

Years of study. Examinations that test judgement rather than memory. Then a standard of conduct that becomes yours permanently, whether anyone is watching or not. It is one of the few professions where the entry requirement is essentially character, tested slowly.

Chupa Mondoloka has met it. She has been admitted to the Zambian Bar as an advocate of the High Court of Zambia.

Chupa works with us at Africa GreenCo, so we had a front row view of the study weekends and the early mornings. None of that view makes the achievement ours. It belongs to her, and to the people at home who rearranged their lives around it.

Congratulations, Chupa. Warmly, and from everyone here at Africa GreenCo.