Medal Africa Service Medal Life after the war After the war, like many other demobilised soldiers, he gained little recognition in the world of civilian life. In addition, the Apartheid based general rule governing pension awards was that Coloured pension scales should amount to three-fifths and African pension scales to two-fifths of the rate applicable to whites. Most African ex-servicemen who had cherished high hopes of their post-war world were disillusioned when they could not find employment based on the new skills they had acquired in the army and that the standard of living to which they were accustomed whilst members of the South African forces were no longer applicable. For Maseko and members of the NMC, post-war South Africa was very much the same as the pre-1939 South Africa. Maseko was struck and killed by a train on 7 March 1952; at the time of his death, he was so poor that his funeral was paid for by borrowed and donated funds. He was buried in the Payneville Township Cemetery in Springs, South Africa. His death certificate gives his age as "+/- 30 years", which suggests that he was born around 1922. If so, he would have been about 20 years old at the time of the act for which he was decorated. Honours and recognition In his honour, the township of KwaThema near Springs has a primary school named after him as is the main road linking Springs to KwaThema. In 1997 the South African Navy renamed the missile attack craft SAS Kobie Coetzee as SAS Job Masego. In 2019, Regiment Noord-Transvaal was renamed Job Masego Regiment. It is unclear why the defence force spells his surname as 'Masego' rather than 'Maseko'. In 2007, South African director Vincent Moloi made a documentary about Job Maseko and the South African 2nd Infantry Division called "A Pair of Boots and a Bicycle". References Citations Footnotes Bibliography Media Video: A pair of boots and a bicycle South African Army personnel South African military personnel of World War II Recipients of the Military Medal 1952 deaths South African prisoners of war World War II prisoners of war held by Germany Year of birth missing People from Springs, Gauteng Railway accident deaths in South Africa