Safety, placed in the hands
of the citizen.
South Africa does not have a shortage of people willing to help. It has a shortage of ways to reach them. Panic GBVF takes the response to gender-based violence out of the waiting room and puts it into the hands of ordinary citizens — reached through national organisations, admitted through structured vetting, and held to account by a permanent audit trail on every single alert.
We intend to change the arithmetic a perpetrator does before he acts. Today he counts on distance, delay and silence. We are building a country where he has to count the people around her instead.
For too long the fear has been hers. A vetted responder minutes away, a recording already running and a log that names every hand on the incident moves it to the only person who should carry it.
How it works
One press starts a chain that reaches vetted responders inside a live search radius — while evidence is captured and trusted contacts are alerted.
Walk through the apps →Ordinary days, made safer
Commuting, trading, studying, walking home. Panic GBVF is built for the hours in between.
Disrupt the situation. Buy her time. Hand over to the authorities.
We are not private security and we do not carry powers of arrest. A responder's job is to interrupt what is happening, be a witness, keep her safe, and hold the scene until SAPS or EMS arrive. Presence disrupts. Disruption buys minutes. Minutes are what she does not have.
Every acceptance, movement and status change is permanently logged. If a responder ever becomes the problem, the system knows exactly who accepted the alert.
The whole picture
Seven ways into the work — the story, the people, the technology and the evidence.