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Tristen Taylor

Dr. Tristen Taylor is a South African journalist, researcher and academic. He is a National Geographic Explorer and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Ethics, Stellenbosch University. https://thanatos.co.za

With just 531 criminal convictions from the 42 365 complaints, either South Africans are going out of their way to tell a whole bunch of outrageous lies or the state isn’t all that interested in doing something about police brutality.
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF VIOLENCE AND RECONCILIATION

Police brutality is government policy

For 20 years ministers in charge of the police have been telling them to beat up or kill criminals

  • Tristen Taylor
5 min read
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