Forty yea old Maria Maseko was one of the first workers discovered to have the cotton dust disease, Brown Lung, in the National Union of Textile Workers' health and safety campaign.
Archive record
R200 pension for life!

- Origin date
- August 1983
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). R200 pension for life!. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0107013
South African History Online (2016) 'R200 pension for life!', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0107013 (Accessed: 26 July 2026).
South African History Online, R200 pension for life! [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0107013, (accessed 26 July 2026).
"R200 pension for life!." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0107013. Accessed 26 July 2026.
South African History Online. "R200 pension for life!." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0107013.
Further reading
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Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
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