Rejoice Chitengu, a data science student at Wits University, won the Wired4Women Top Tech Student Award in 2025.
EXCLUSIVE: Are we witnessing the FINAL GASP of meritocracy in tech? A SHOCKING new award scheme is officially segregating talent by gender, offering a HUGE CASH PRIZE of R30,000 EXCLUSIVELY to women—and critics are BLASTING it as a desperate, divisive stunt that PUNISHES men.
This isn’t about celebration; it’s a calculated POLITICAL MOVEMENT masquerading as empowerment. The “Wired4Women” awards, backed by corporate giant Telkom, are now actively SEEKING OUT female students for glorified handouts, demanding the question: is raw talent and hard work NO LONGER ENOUGH for recognition? The industry is being FORCED to kneel before a radical agenda that values identity over innovation.
Last year’s winner, Rejoice Chitengu, is now the poster child for a system that insiders whisper is RIGGED from the start. A secretive panel of “academic experts” and board members will judge these women not as equals, but as a PROTECTED CLASS. This is NOT equality—this is engineered favoritism on a grand scale, creating a generation of “winners” who know they didn’t have to compete on the same field.
They call it “creating role models.” We call it SOCIAL ENGINEERING. As nominations slam shut on February 8th, the message to young men in tech is chillingly clear: you need not apply.
Is this the future we’re building—one where your chromosomes are your greatest credential? The data doesn’t lie, and soon, neither will the shattered ambitions of those deemed unworthy by birth.



