Apollonia Mathia

Apollonia Mathia (died 18 March 2011) was a South Sudanese journalist and social activist. Mathia was one of the founders of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) as well as Union of Journalists of Southern Sudan (UJOSS).

Background and education Mathia was born in the 1950s. She spent her childhood in northern Uganda before relocating to Juba.

Career Before she joined the Ministry of Finance as a secretary in 1978, Mathia worked as an Information Manager at the Catholic Church. She left the Juba Post in 2008 and joined the BBC Monitoring Service as their correspondent in South Sudan.

At the time of her death in 2011, Mathia was Executive Director of the Association for Media Women in South Sudan (AMWISS) which she had helped co-found in 2008 alongside Veronica Lucy Gordon and others

Death On 18 March 2011, Mathia died as a result of an accident when a motorcycle she was on was crushed by a lorry.