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Nathalie Bertrams

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Nathalie Bertrams

Nathalie Bertrams is an award-winning photographer and journalist who routinely publishes in newspapers such as Süddeutsche Zeitung, Al Jazeera, BBC and The Guardian. She is a National Geographic Explorer, and a fellow at both the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Earth Journalism Network. www.crossingborders.info

Medupi Power Station is a dry-cooled coal-fired power station being built by Eskom near Lephalale in Limpopo province, South Africa. The name chosen for the station, Medupi, is a Sepedi word for “rain that soaks parched lands”.
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

The story of SA’s biggest power plant, and its little town

Before Big Coal, Lephalale was a small town with little water and few jobs. Two power plants have changed it

  • Tristen Taylor
  • Nathalie Bertrams
22 min read
Women sorting sundried black vanilla pods. Thanks to rapidly growing Chinese demand
MADAGASCAR

Vanilla fever: Fear sours the sweet scent of Madagascar’s success

Vanilla is more expensive than silver, which makes it big business for the island’s poor– and the pod mafia

  • Nathalie Bertrams
13 min read
GOLD

Moz digs garimpeiros out of trouble

Artisanal miners’ associations aren’t always popular but they do help cut pollution and rehabilitate land.

  • Nathalie Bertrams
7 min read