Keep Up With Global Black News

Sign up to our newsletter to get the latest updates and events from the leading Afro-Diaspora publisher straight to your inbox.

Bohlale Mphahlele

Gender-based violence: Meet the SA student whose smart earring can quietly capture attackers, alert police

Gender-based violence: Meet the SA student whose smart earring can quietly capture attackers, alert police

Bohlale Mphahlele created a revolutionary device to combat South Africa’s gender-based violence crisis. Her device, a wearable safety device called the “Alerting Earpiece”, was created in 2020 when she was a 16-year-old schoolgirl at the SJ van der Merwe Technical High School in Limpopo. The earpiece is a discreet gadget worn like an ordinary earring. If…

Connect with us

Join our Mailing List to Receive Updates

Face2face Africa | Afrobeatz+ | BlackStars

Keep Up With Global Black News and Events

Sign up to our newsletter to get the latest updates and events from the leading Afro-Diaspora publisher straight to your inbox, plus our curated weekly brief with top stories across our platforms.

No, Thank You