Gender activist Leonora Tima launched the mobile app Gender Rights in Tech Grit after a family members murder in Cape Town in 2020. The killing and its quiet aftermath pushed her to build a platform where people, mostly women, can record incidents of abuse, store evidence and ask for help.
Her death wasn't published by any news outlet because the sheer volume of these cases in our country is such that it doesn't qualify as news, she told K24 Digital .
Before developing the app, Leonora and her team spent months engaging directly with township communities across Cape Town to understand how victims of abuse communicate and seek help.