Joburg mayor asks for 14 days to review #SowetoShutdown memorandum  

Hundreds of Soweto residents, including children and the elderly, marched under the banner #SowetoShutdown and took to the streets of the Johannesburg CBD on Tuesday to hand a memorandum of demands to the office of mayor Mpho Phalatse. Residents are calling for the city to resolve the many issues plaguing the township, among them the ongoing power crisis in the area.