Ramaphosa rushes to Union Buildings to meet Total Shutdown marchers

President Cyril Ramaphosa was on Wednesday night heading to the Union Buildings to receive a memorandum from organisers of the #TheTotalShutdown march.

This after organisers earlier complained that the president wasn’t there to collect the document.

However, Ramaphosa’s spokeswoman Khusela Diko tweeted that Ramaphosa was “not in town” on Wednesday and “was never scheduled to receive the memo”.

“However he’s just received the news that the women who marched are still at the [Union Buildings]. He is making his way there now,” she said.

The march was held to protest against a “crisis” of gender-based violence in the country.