GRIT - Gender Rights in Tech

07/10/2026

Knowing where to turn for help can feel overwhelming. We want to make that first step easier. 💙

Our founder and Managing Director, Leonora Tima, spoke to SABC’s Channel Africa about how the GRIT App works: from activating a panic alert linked to our private security partner, to finding nearby support and understanding your rights.

The app is free to download and data-free to use. Find it on Google Play or the App Store, and take a few minutes to get familiar with its features, including shake-to-drop panic activation.

Watch Leonora explain how it works, and share this with someone who might need it. You don’t have to wait until you need help to know where to find it.

05/10/2026

GRIT is in Bangkok for the SVRI Forum 2026!

Preventing technology-facilitated violence requires accountability from those who design, fund and govern technology and better support for organisations responding to harm.

Our Ronel co-facilitated two pre-conference workshops:

🔹 Take back power: Feminist capacity-building for AI and tech safety in GBV response, alongside Chayn , UNICEF , Common Fire Consulting, Transform Rural India™️ and She Holds Power, with a first look at the Feminist Digital Wayfinder.

🔹 Bridging sectors, building solutions: Combating TFGBV alongside the , Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice UNFPA and Stop Online HarmUNFPAank yStop Online Harm facilitators and everyone who contributed. These conversations must translate into safer technology, accessible support and institutions that take responsibility.

Fund our work, explore a partnership or simply start a conversation. Ronel is at the Forum for the rest of the week - come say hi or message us to arrange a coffee. ☕

02/10/2026

The gaps are known. The commitments have been made. Now we need delivery.

Today, GRIT joined GBVF Accountability Convening at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, alongside survivors, activists and civil society.

The 24 Demands and the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide must translate into accessible services, safety and justice.

Survivors should not have to keep explaining why the system needs to work while carrying the consequences of its failures.

We call on the institutions responsible to resource services, address failures and report openly on progress. Every commitment needs a clear owner, a deadline and evidence of delivery - with survivors and communities helping assess what changes.

GRIT stands with survivors and civil society in demanding urgent, transparent and sustained action. Safety and justice cannot remain promises people are asked to wait for.

Thank you to the organisers for strengthening this collective call. 💙

30/09/2026

Mr President, we’ve heard this speech before.

Last night, President Ramaphosa told the nation: “What we have done has not been enough.” We agree. We also remember September 2019: the same crisis, a national address and a R1.6 billion emergency plan.

Since July, 11 women have been found dead in and around Ekurhuleni. Between April and June, 569 women were murdered across South Africa. That’s about six every day.

What he announced: four immediate measures, all due by 28 November.

A national audit of unresolved cases against women and children
A funded plan to clear forensic backlogs
Women’s safety audits in every municipality
A package on alcohol-related violence for Cabinet

What’s still missing is the money. No new funding was announced, and the minister responsible calls the GBVF mandate “largely unfunded”. A promise without a budget is just a speech.

He also said the Ekurhuleni cases “will not be allowed to go cold”. Eleven families are waiting to see that promise kept.

We need women alive. Swipe to see what’s been promised, what’s been funded, and what action looks like →

While we wait for action, we look after each other:
→ GRIT App: free panic button, live GPS and a secure Evidence Vault. App Store & Google Play.
→ Zuzi: free, private AI support on WhatsApp, 24/7: 087 725 2215

Share this and tag your MP. Mark 28 November.

24/09/2026

Heritage Day, South Africa 🇿🇦

Today we celebrate what we inherit — the recipes, the laughs, the languages, the patterns.

But not everything we inherit is heritage. Some things get passed down that should end with us.

Swipe through — then tell us: What will you pass on?

💬 Need to talk? Zuzi is free, confidential, and speaks your language.
WhatsApp: +27 87 725 2215

Happy Heritage Day from all of us at GRIT 💚💜

18/09/2026

He’s 13. He wrote to the President because nobody asked him what he thinks. 💜

“Boys like me are watching you. If you stay quiet, what are we supposed to learn?”

Nine women found in Ekurhuleni. A national disaster declared. And still: women turned away at police stations, four convictions in every hundred child abuse cases, nine in ten shelters barely surviving.

Mr President, we don’t want another speech. We want a plan, a budget and a date.

17/09/2026

Nine women. One community. Too many names. If you or someone you know needs support, the GRIT app is here for you. You are not alone. 💜

16/09/2026

16/09/2026

Eight women. Two months. One corner of Gauteng.
Right now, South Africa is watching Kempton Park. The marches, the headlines, the hashtags. But we’ve been here before, and we know how this goes. It trends. It fades. Everything carries on.
Between April and June this year, 569 women were murdered in this country. Their names never trended.
GBVF was declared a national disaster almost a year ago. Women are still being told to stop jogging, share their location, text when they get home. Our girls are learning these rules before they’ve learned long division.
Warnings are not protection. Hashtags are not justice.
We need real action on the root of this: the men who believe women’s bodies and lives are theirs to take, and the systems that keep failing to stop them.
We are asking you one question. Will you still care next week?

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25/08/2026

SAAF grantee partner GRIT - Gender Rights in Tech is developing a chatbot to help people navigate services in South Africa. They are co-developing the tool with those most affected by restrictions to safe abortion.

Read more in our new blog - https://saafund.org/bots-and-barriers-accessing-safe-abortion-in-south-africa/