JOHANNESBURG - Messages of support and empathy have been flooding social media after videos of a woman staging a naked protest at the Union Buildings were posted on social media on Wednesday.

Gugu Ncube stood outside the Union Buildings, wearing only a panty and another panty over her chest with a cloth placard.

She had been protesting the alleged sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of a colleague while working at the University of South Africa (Unisa).

Ncube demanded to address President Cyril Ramaphosa about the matters, which she said was being ignored.

Not long after she began her protest, female police officers apprehended her and bundled her into the back of a police van.

WARNING: Video contains nudity

This is how Gugu Ncube was handled by the @SAPoliceService pic.twitter.com/XONsbotf7X

— Made in KwaZulu-Natal🐐 🇿🇦 (@nhlanhla_bhelo) March 13, 2019

"My name is Gugu Ncube and on Wednesday the 13th of March 2019 l am staging a One Woman protest at union building, nake_d. Nudity is a sign of my dignity that l have been stripped off of. I have nothing more to protect. My dignity is gone".
Is this the best protest my sister???? pic.twitter.com/rH3b1eT97g

— Shylet Chirwa (@ChirwaShylet) March 13, 2019

Live from Pretoria union building #Gugu Ncube rolling out a one woman nude protest .".My president hear me out I have been striped naked off my dignity." pic.twitter.com/UXO6rmwVvt

— Definitely khumza (@KDefinitely) March 13, 2019

Gugu Ncube arrested while doing a nude protest against another man she says raped her. Rape is serious and must be investigated. 2 yrs ago while on another man,Gugu lied that she is @Welshman_Ncube 's daughter. I was villified by some activists for exposing her on that allegation pic.twitter.com/kUSuifXXia

— Simba Chikanza (@schikanza) March 13, 2019

Users on social media have responded to the videos, voicing their anger at Ncube being arrested instead of her concerns being addressed.

I strongly support Gugu Ncube for this outstanding protest. The world is rotten and needs stronghearted trailblazer like Gugu. Sexual harassment has no place in our society pic.twitter.com/uMs8d0eUvu

— Emmanuel Manyati (@ManyatiEmmanuel) March 13, 2019

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
Assata Shakur

Gugu Ncube you are my hero, you came alone but stood as a million

— Waves (@Luyanda_Shandu) March 13, 2019

They couldn’t arrest Mampitsha before Babes pressed charges but today a woman protesting for being sexual harassed they come in numbers armed even ... free Gugu Ncube

— IG: pheladikgodu (@_Pheladi_) March 13, 2019

Why is Gugu Ncube arrested? Disrobing is a legitimate form of protest, used for many decades in this continent. @SAPoliceService https://t.co/67uGEddgrJ

— Nomboniso Gasa (@nombonisogasa) March 13, 2019

So @SAPoliceService you'd rather arrest Gugu Ncube for public indecency rather than listening to her grievance ⁉️

South Africa will never be a better place of we stop terrorise and victimize those who need us most. The police are there to serve & protect, not make matters worse pic.twitter.com/Lspe4t8Pcj

— Dr Sanele B. Gumede💎 (@SaneleBGumede_) March 13, 2019

Gugu Ncube has been taken to Sunny Side Police Station. Please show your support for Gugu and be there. We will NOT be silenced! #TheTotalShutdown #ReleaseGugu

— #TheTotalShutdown (@WomenProtestSA) March 13, 2019

Gugu Ncube... We believe you, us men with a conscious will support you because no one should ever suffer the indignity of being violated sexually and physically also

— THE ONLY GUY IN MIDRAND WITH FURNITURE😎👑🌟 (@Kimo__NK) March 13, 2019

Release GUGU NCUBE!!!!!

— its sour boner. (@glamor_mdluli) March 13, 2019

Loving this country is like being in a situationship. I'm leaving might go Pluto because wow human beings.

The Gugu Ncube story is breaking

— uMakhosi Noentla (@makhosinoentla) March 13, 2019

Gugu Ncube 💔😭

— blah blah (@Nozzylicious) March 13, 2019