Fighting crime with tech and together as a community
after being a repeat victim of crime, Thulile Mthethwa identified a gap in the market for security technology and crime response systems aimed at poorer communities.
In 2013, she resigned from her full-time job as a software developer to focus on the development of this solution, which in 2015 was launched as MeMeZa Shout – South Africa’s first public alarm system.
joined Mthethwa in late 2014, after being introduced through a mutual acquaintance who knew they shared similar traumatic experiences: “We made a
