'Siqalo portaloo cleaners protest’, 24 Oct 2014: Protesting portaloo cleaners...claim that their health is being compromised by inadequate protective equipment and the failure of their employer to provide them with inoculation against disease – a condition of their contract...“It is difficult work, because we deal directly with human faeces,” [Thandokazi Ntshofu, a supervisor]...says... [W]orkers...complain that there are not enough face masks to go round and some of the gloves issued...have holes. Attempts to raise these grievances with Silver Solutions management have apparently fallen on deaf ears.“We have gotten rashes, runny stomachs. What is worse...[i]f we miss a day of work, we do not get paid. Even if we have a slip from the doctor to prove that we were sick,” Ntshofu says...Silver Solutions’ owner Nothemba Ncoliwe...agreed to organise inoculations for her staff...She said she had not known about the grievances, and the protest had caught her by surprise...