WeThinkCode female developers triumph at GBV hackathon

Training academy WeThinkCode female developers excelled at a gender-based-violence (GBV) hackathon held in Sandton, creating a tech solution targeting perpetrators of violence against women. The software developers were part of a four-member group going by the moniker "Winning Team", which picked up the top prize of the R30 000 that was up for grabs. The Winning Team, comprising Mmathabo Pule (25), Daisy Mangue (21), Keitumetse Bokaba (29) and Lulamile Mkhungela (30), emerged winners from a pool of 60 participants. Pule and Mangue are developers from WeThinkCode, which is on a mission to recruit more females to take up software development training. The 10th hackathon hosted by Empire Partner Foundation (EPF) focused on how SA can use innovation and tech to address and combat GBV by targeting the root cause: the perpetrators.